Show r f a I 1 u 40 I tilt r g fM c B By Dy Mil MII 11 v- v MANY HAI HA-HAI Youre You're probably going to wondel wonder won tier del how I know so much about Indians Im I'm going to tell tel you Back In South Dakota I befriend befriended ed an nn Indian He lie befriended me Im I'm Chief Bald Eagle No Working for tor the Black mack lulls Hills I Bad Lands Association of South I Dakota an Institution n sImilar to to the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council I was Wa assigned the task of taking 95 05 year old Chief Dewey Beard and his wife Alice to Minneapolis Minneapolis Min Min- neapolis for a Travel and Sportsmans Sportsman's Sportsmans Sportsmans Sportsman's Sports Sports- mans man's Show The luxurious hotel life was fine CIne for Bald Eagle but after ten I days was becoming monotonous for tor Dewey Dowey and his wife The food was fine CIne for tor Bald Eagle but a little lit too rich for tor th the Beards In order to keep peace in camp and the threat of my friends to start walking for home and a meal of buffalo or deer meat I purchased a skillet loaf of bread some hamburger which I referred to as buffalo meat and we three thre headed to the edge of the city limits for a out cook-out ina In Ina a wooded area That outing was just the tick tick- et ct It was just what was needed We had a great time We or rather they enjoyed the food That was when Dewey said I make you Chief Alice said Chief Bald Eagle We Wo roared It was such an appropriate appropriate appropriate ap ap- ap- ap name Alice said said- You lose scalp We Ve roared agaIn Alice said Good time with Bald Eagle Eagle huh huh Dewey Beard Dewey said Ug good Ug good good goodha ha ha hat Good eat car ha ha Suddenly Dewey whose ears were bigger and much better than mine said Many l boy come I pulled myself tp the top of a small rise and sure enough many boy come Many Boy Scouts come Now Important to the story Is the fact tact that both by Indian friends were dressed In show regalia re re- gaila galla Dewey In his buckskin suit and full feather headdress was wasa wasn a n sight to behold Alice In the beaded skirt and moccasin was wasa a spectacle Two more things are Im Important Import ort ort- ant to the story very story very Import Import- ant Along with the other foodstuffs food stuffs I had purchased a n bottle of catsup Alice carried a horse horse- tall purse The Idea must have hit all of ofus ofus ofus us at the same time As the boys' boys voices drew near the where rise they would come directly upon our campsite a few feet below I smeared some of the bright red catsup on the bald pate Alice handed Dewey the horsetail purse and there he stood with one foot on Bald Eagles Eagle's chest and with purse and knife held high as the group of Scouts came over therise the therise therise rise he said White man all gone Well Dewey thought that th the reaction resembled a buffalo stampede Alice said later that she made more ha-ha ha than in all of her 87 81 years That night at the Sportsmans Sportsman's show we were plain silly and we even giggled in peoples people's faces There was more than one remark about too much fire We wondered if the Scouts had run themselves out yet Next week we he head d for home and some real buffalo meat en en- tiled Many In the teepee tee tee- pee |