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Show o ! THE EVIL ONE . This story is one of tho best pioneer j stories that has been written to be sent into the Pioneer Association by the Milford High School: By Ellen Ford The Utes were living a quiet secluded seclud-ed life in the happy hunting grounds of this world the Unita Reservation. They were steeped in their traditions tradit-ions and superstitions and lived religiously re-ligiously up to them. The mission had been establised for a good many years but hadn't left much of an impression on them. The alloted land and neat houses were left for the wickiup, so the government gov-ernment rented them to the white settlers who had come in at the opening open-ing of the reservation for colonization. colonizat-ion. The Pace family were typical home seekers, poor, but industrious. . They rented the government allotment of old Mountain Sheep. They settled there until ihey could locate a desire-able desire-able homestead. The family consisted of the father and mother and five children; two older brothers, an older sister, Bonnie, age nine, and a little! brother! Tin's land was intensely cultivated with no pasture for ;,iilch cows, so it j 'was Boniie's daily .:sk to herd the cows along the grassy strips on eith- i ?r side of the lane. She never tired of this task as there were too many interests: The evolatian in the different birds nests she discovered, dis-covered, the young rabbits, chipmunks and other little creatures. Then there were the different Indians living a-j long the way. It amused her greatly,! even at her age to see the old Indians as well as the young, flock off to j Issue Day at the Ouray trading post, where they would be gone long enough ! for one Indian to win all the money j and supplies that were issued to the; others. During these times their homes and stock were sadly neglected. The dogs generally met a porcupine and 1 the calves made them selves at home! with their mothers. J Bonnie usually brought home somej little helpless animal as a surprise to her little brother when she returned with the cows. Soon after she left with the cows ore morning, she was passing Jim Catopta's wickiup, and she saw him going toward the river with some- thing live and wriggling hanging downward from his hand. It aroused: her curiosity immodiatly. She had never seen anything just like it before. She ducked under the barbed-wire fence and soon over took him, to find to her amazement that it was a little brown Indian baby. A feeling of i great anxiety came over her. She con fronted him-firmly, and he was none too pleased with her presence. "Where are you taking that baby?" i "My squaw get two babies, first 1 1 baby good, next baby bad spirit. In-1 In-1 1 dian alltime killum. Me go river now." "What are you going to do with that baby, Jim Capota?" "'Hitum tree pretty soon happy hunting hunt-ing ground." The grim reality of the thing had siezed her. She was afraid ner little power wasn't sufficient to .stop this awful deed. She screamed an 1 begged desperately for the baby. He retraced his steps to the wickiup and taking a sheep skin from the ground, he knocked a little dust out of it, wrapped the baby in it and : handed it to Bonnie, saying: "This is bad spirit for you now for me no more." j Bonnie felt she had won the great-est great-est victory of her life and took the cows home before they had half ; finished their breakfast, as she approached ap-proached the house her mother was getting wood. She was shocked to se3 her daughter coming . home at this hour, and little brother was sure the parcel was for him. Her curiosity was much aroused at the persistent smile on Bonnie's face. Slyly opening the sheepskin she let her mother peek at the prize. "Jim Capota gave it to me," she boasted. Mrs. Pace wondered what she had done that such a thing should be visitel upon her, with the1 size of her f a m i 1 y and her provorty-stricken condition. She suggested calling the minister and having him place it in a I home. Bonnie's grief knew no bounds at this. She declared she would tend j ; and fcod it at night, but her mother j tended it and watched Bonnie sleep peacefully through all its howlings. j She grew within a few months so ' sure of her place in the Pace home that every member was her slave. Soon after this, a relative of Mr. Pace's died and left a ranch in Colo- j rado, and when they 'left, there was j no thought of leaving the Indian baby j behind. At the minister's suggestion,! I she was chiristened Enuice which : means happy victory. There after she was accepted as Eunice Pace. J For obvious rco.scns her origin was never kept a secret from her.; And when she was fourteen, she had a desire to see her twin sister. j When she arrived at the Agency, she was the very impersonation of tidiness and cleanliness, from her sleek brades, to her crisp, dainty frock and spotless white slippers. She stood in stiff aloofness as her twin sister was ushered into her presence. She gave one good look at the short cropped greasy hair, the gaudy smoke-smuged shawl, and beaded bead-ed moccasins. No greeting passed either of their lips. The sister feeilng her inferiority squatted squaw fashion on the floor, with downcast eyes. A wistful smile curled one side of Eunice's mouth and with a deep sigh and not another iook at her sister she said half aloud: "God was with the evil one". |