| Show en of the e men bunted by captain G elleott nightingale copyright HOW TO WRECK A VILLAGE P HEA IE A POT and long lodge cree audacious warriors and veterans of many a scrap crop with other tribes ruled their villages with an iron hand they were happy prosperous and had very little tro trouble uble shortly after the coming of the red coated pony so soldiers idlers ot of tho the great white mother the plea piea pie a pot and long lodge tribes ot of crees had been given a splendid reservation with timber and game and elsh in abundance thero there they had settled aled down peacefully and then one day to the astonishment ot of an all concerned pie a pot and long lodge ordered their tribesmen to pun pull stakes for the two tribes were a going for a ramble across tho the country without having any particular destination in view the h handful and of white settlers became a bit alarmed but their alarm subsided when they observed the pie a pots and long lodges were orderly in time the pie Plea a Pots and long lodges came across a largo party of white men digging up the ground and also laying thin strips of iron or steel across the hat flat prairie what Is an all this inquired tho the majestic pie ale a pot oh lust just building a railroad replied one of the workmen the crees moved on into the west and when they were about a mile or so past the end ol of steel tho the two chiefs ordered the tribes to pitch camp slowly but surely the end of steel crept closer and closer toward the cree encampment and it was later discovered that the camp was situated on the right of way of tho the railroad As the end of steel moved closer and closer engineers and foremen parleyed parl eyed with plo and long lodge entreating them to move either to the right of left off the right of way so that the work could go on without unnecessary delays the chiefs stood firm and in time refused to parley further with the engineers in charge then one line fine morning pie ale a pot and long lodge were visited by two red coated horsemen a sergeant and constable of the northwest mounted police the argument was soon going again and matters reached such a stage that the tha sergeant informed them that they had better move 0 or r he would do the moving for them pie a pot let out a ninety horsepower horse power howl and soon the sergeant and constable wet surrounded by hundreds of howling painted crees out tor for blood and scalps and the complete destruction 0 of f the white invaders during a lull in the melee the sergeant took out his bis watch and told pie a pot that he would give him exactly 15 minutes to move off that railroad right of way instantly there was another demonstration of anger and truculence and the two men of the mounted sat their saddles as best they could in the milling mob As the last tick of the fifteenth in aln in ute passed into eternity the sergeant of the northwest mounted police dismounted right into the midst of that bloodthirsty mob he forced his way through it end walked right over to pie a pots teepee and kicked the keyhole d down own while squaws squads and children howled a and rid screamed under the collapsed tepee the sergeant walked to the next tepee and kicked the keyhole of that one down from one to the other that lone serge sergeant or it strode kicking keyholes key poles down until every tepee was flat young bucks and so ca called hed braves followed close on his heels pushing against him making faces at him cursing him and doing all they could to annoy or frighten him but the sergeant just kept right on going until all tepees were flat and in spite of their proximity not one cree had dared to strike a blow at the courageous sergeant with everything flattened the sergeant mounted his horse and gave his last order Orl right bustle abaft a bi bit t on the move shove ort orf abart your blurry business it Is an all of which was his cock ney way of saying git coln meanwhile pie a pot and long lodge were so an angry gry they were stumped for words never had they seen such audacity one lone man wearing a red coat had literally wrecked their village it Is highly probable moreover that pla pid a pot and long lodge realized that if the other men of the mounted were any thing like this sergeant perhaps the ale a pots and long lodges had better not get into tiny any more with them these red coats were bad medicine at any rate as the chieftains saw the hopelessness of further resistance they muttered reI a few words to nearby tribesmen and within two hours the pie a akots pots and long lodges were heading for their reservation en route plea piea pot chanced to remember that if he behave himself the great white mother would stop sending supplies of food and flour and clothing and that little bit of treaty mon ey cy now and then oh well what a day its been anyway he might have said as he arrived at the res er |
