Show taba A GAME TO PLAY draw laree square on a sheet of brown paper or on the inside of a hat box cover you will need a button with which to play the bame a red and blue crayon to draw the diagram and several players any number can play the object of th game la to koaki fatty by addan the player who does this first wine each player the button standing two feet from the board lie corci the number on which the button falls it it falls on a line be misses his turn when it falls on a vacant space he may double hie last caunt it Is very important that you make the diagram exactly like the picture try it patten beard pocahontas THE INDIAN MAID cliplef powhatan and his eight tribes bad lived in peace for many years and content to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors among these tribes word was law all the indians feared him except pocahontas ca Powhatan a favorite daughter pocahontas was twelve years old hair was black and glossy as a raven s win her eye were black and sparkling when this story begins changes were beginning to take place in the indian tribes for the white people from across the ocean had arrived bringing new customs new weapons and many strange ways of living at first the indians welcomed these strange new people but before long they learned to bo afraid of the guns that were so much more noisy than their bows and arrows and they could not understand all the strange cus tome which they followed because they could not understand they began to talk among themselves and say that white strangers were enemies and were not to be trusted pocahontas however found the little white children very pleasant comrades often ehe walked through the woods to their village and always she received a friendly welcome one day when pocahontas was busy making herself a necklace of seeds she saw certain indians of her father s tribe preparing for a feast now a feast meant that a great event was to take place but pocahontas could think of nothing that had happened or was going to happen that was great enough to mean a feast she dropped her work and ran to the side of a friendly squaw who was pounding grain why do they prepare for a feast macowan Ma she asked was there not one yesterday when powhatan Pow batan slew the groat bear of the forest 1 lias he slain another bear today ao 20 no my little one answered macowan Ma the feast la to take place because a white captain la a prisoner of the indians and the council must decide what it Is beat to do with him go back to thy play little one the feast does not concern thee pocahontas went back to her bead stringing but she could think only of the white captain held a prisoner she knew that it was dangerous for anyone to be a prisoner of the in dinn tribes for prisoners whom they thought were enemies were often killed jno no she thought they must not kill the white captain the white strangers are the indians friends I 1 will tell my father powhatan aa ran as as she could to the council place biere she found her father seated la the center on a long low couch he looked very powerful and very brae to pocahontas he wore a string of large icaria around his nebb and was dressed in a of raccoon ekins around the council room stood the indian war giors their heads and shoulders paint cd red and wearing in their hair tufts of white down through the doorway came two more warriors leading the prisoner pocahontas knew him at ills name was capt john smith and he was very much loved by her friends the children he had often spoken kindly to pocahontas as she played with the children in the village she ran to her fathers side and knelt before him dear father ehe bald do not FOUR FISH PUZZLE see if you can translate these pic lure into the names of four fish of the harvey harm this prisoner he Is the indians friend powhatan looked it his small daughter put his hand tenderly upon her head and then pointed to the door pocahontas understood lie wanted her to leave the council room he thought her only a little girl who did not know outside the door poca honens waited arst she knew would come the feast at this the indian chiefs would decide what they should do with their prisoner and as soon ns the feast was over crept through the door powhatan again took bis place in the center the warriors stood solemnly around the edge ot the room captain smith was led before powhatan and the council chamber wag in silence suddenly powhatan raised hia hand two indians vanished from the council returning immediately with two targe stones poca bontag knew only too well what that sign meant 1 the white captain her friend was to be killed ag an enemy I 1 she ran to the white captain threw her arms around his neck put her head close to his and waited it they killed him they must kill her too when powhatan saw pocahontas in danger he rose from his council seat and held ap his hands for the indiana to put aside their weapons the white captain shall NOT be killed ho said my daughter po calla him friend we too shall call him that some of the warriors grumbled to themselves but none dared to disobey powhatan and so did little pocahontas save the life of a brave and captain |