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Show Old Red Cloud, Leader Own Notion 1 Thero Is 11 firm paleface conviction 1 thnt tho red man hns no eonso of hit- i mor. It were hotter perhaps to qualify tho statement by making It a trltlo loss sweeping.. It Is tho paleface at a dls- , tanco who thinks that tho Indian has j no funny bond tho frontlorsman I knowB otherwise There is old Hod Cloud, tho Sioux 1 chieftain, now within a short Journoy of the Joys which tho happy hunting ground holds for him, who probably noror laughed aloud in his llfo, but , who behind his mask of solidity hides as koon nn appreciation of "tho fun of tho thing" as can bo found In tho com-! com-! position of any ono of his whlto con- f quorors. Nearly forty yoars ago Red Colud, In tho prlmo of his fighting days, led, with othor chlofs, an attack on tho of the Sioux, Had His 1 of Humor whites near Fort Fetterman. lied Cloud had tho hotter of his foes on that day. Afterward whon tho paleface pale-face soldiers with blue coats proved too many for him. Red Cloud had a chango of heart. Ho said that ho had plucked out hntrod. This was ono of Red Cloud's best Jokos, and whon tho whites could not see his faco becnuso It was turnod nwny from the council fire, tho old chlof smllod nnd his eye twinkled with tho Joy of it. 1 A quarter of a contury divided tho fight at Fort Fettorrnan from that at Woundod Kneo. Red Cloud was at tha Pino Rldgo agency whon tho nows of tho battlo between tho soldiers of tho Seventh Cavalry and tho braves of Rig Foot's band was brought In by courlor. |
