Show INDIANS INDIANA AND COMETS A L belef that the SOB san chases stars and bites them I 1 when the last comet was streaming iche camping oue one 1 night in a canyon nea near r the foot of 6 cooks lea peak in the party was an old ai and ad for an Indian fairly intelligent ute named sa sam to sam had teen been attached to some same cavalry tra troop op at fort fork as a scout tnt but his day of leaving the service being reached he be atta attached clied hina himself self to defor n or a ijo consideration asid says a writer in in the st lows louis po ro pointing inting to the comet I 1 ask asked ed sam what he ha could say in its defense from th the standpoint of a ute ate sam was uzi unlike most indians a great talker and could speak english very well ile he was ambitious to perfect himself in the language and readily seized sei zea an on ev every ery chance for a talk indeed I 1 discovered him on one or two occasions all alone and talking vigorously at 11 a mark like a savage demosthenes tell about that said sam point inc ing toward the comet pst sam do it in ili a heap easy the sun isi is the man and he have moon for squaw the tha stars big stars and little stars are all their children the jhb sun dont like em cm if he catches one he eats it this makes the stars heap fraid and when the sun has bas his sleep over and comes out the stars r run and hide when the sun comes stars go 99 creep into holes and hide but the moon is good she loves her children the stars and when the sun eua sleeps she the comes out in th the alcy on and d the stars are glad and they come out of the places they hid in igind arld forget to he frale fraid I 1 and play but when the sun again they run rum he is always after them and he catches them sometimes this one continued sam again pointing to the comets comet the sun catch onetime one time he got away though but the sun hit hu him f n and hurt him why he bleed so now hes heap scared and so keeps hla his face always to toward the place where the sun iso is sleeping leeping i |