Show MARRIED AND KNOW IT new indian agent got into fredica A nt through ignorance of a native custom on the tha old rosebud indian reserva alon in south dakota they still laugh over tho peculiar predicament into which a now indian agent once onca sot got himself tho agent an unqualified tender toot foot was waa inspecting an indian school Noll noticing etrig that an aa soon as he entered the tha room every girl present brought her hair forward over her face he asked the teacher to tell theme theia to throw it back so that he be might seo see their faces facea but this they refused to do until after much urging one girl did finally uncover tier her face after school was waa over the agent wondered at the actions of the girl who had bad up uncovered her face sho she followed him to hla his house entered after him and act beet about getting his dinner As ho he spoke no sioux and ana she aha no english he be could got get no at explanation from her finally to hla his relief tho teacher rode up tip shaking with laughter he asked the agent how he liked hta his new wifel then the latter understood what he had done in certain tribes of the sioux indians indiana alt all it man needs do in order to get a wife Is to induce a girl to uncover her face the agent had proposed in the usual way and been accepted t in vain did the agent plead that ho be already had a wife in the cast there was waa only one way to got get out of it it it cost him the tha of fourteen gonles to persuade the indian cirps father to take her back bach ngali |