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Show large piece of gingerbread from a great brown sheet tbat was cooling In the woodshed, and aba remarked tbat it wu very disinterested of Tommy to intercede inter-cede for hia cousin. As Tommy, bim-elf. bim-elf. did not bite gingerbread he might have a raspberry tart Tommy got outside out-side of tue tart and then took the gingerbread gin-gerbread to the reserration. Jobnny wasstill sitting on the bucket and be seemed likely to remain there till the January thaw set in. His knees knocked together with the cold and he wss endeavoring en-deavoring to arrange bis torn blanket with the boles all on the lee side, so tbat there wouldn't be so much draught tlerougu it. When he saw the smoking piece of gingerbread tears of rapturous anticipation washed gullies in bis war paint. "Go get some warm water and pour on the bottom of this bucket." said he, "and the great chief will come to the ageucy for bis rations." "It will not be necessary," said the agent. "Let the red man bunt the buffalo buf-falo and coyote. The agent will take care of the rations." Then be divided the gingerbread into two equal parts, one of which be bit with the right side of bis mouth and the other with bis left. j TOMMY. PLAYS INJUN. HE WAS THE ACENT AND JOHNNY WAS THE BIG SIOUX CHIEF. Code Benjamin However Appear eu tbe Scene Id Time to Subdue All Hostile Operations. Little Tommy had gone out Into the Country to spend a few days at the bouse of hia Uncle Benjamin, and to famish cheerful companionship for j Ben's youngest boy, Johnny. Ilia rustic I relations received Tommy kindly, little I Johnny showed him all the sights of the .. I farm and taught him many innocent j games. I On tbe afternoon of the second day I the two boya stood in the lee of the I fcarn, throwing snowballs at Uncle Benjamin's Ben-jamin's hens. It.wasavcry chilly afternoon, af-ternoon, especially for the hens. Sud-I Sud-I denly little Tommy exclaimed: "Let's I play Indians." I "Bully," said little Johnny, "and I'll I tie the great chief of the Sioux, Young-I Young-I Man-Not-Afraid-of-Rat-Poison." I Tommy offered no objection, and the I eimple country lad thought it was very I ' kind of his cousin to thus yield up the I principal role without protest. lie ' I quickly armed himself with a wuoden I tomahawk, got some red ochre for war I paint, levied on the rooster for feathers I 1 end made a scalpiug-kuife out of the liandlc of a tin-dipper, after which he ! said "Whoop! Let tbe pale face beware j f fr Young-Man - Not - Afraid - of - Rat-Poison Rat-Poison is on the war path." "I'll be the Ageut," suid Tommy, "and yon miiHt call me in tho Indian tongue Fut Man - With-Boodle-iu-His-Clothes." INj FROZEN ON TUB UESKHV ATtOS. "When doe9 the great chief come in?" asked Young-Man-Not-Afraid-of-RU-Poison. "Ho doesn't romo in," retorted tho pale, face; "he stays on tho reservation." The spectacle of the vanishing ginger-brend ginger-brend was too much for little Johnny. Ho had not realized before how hungry he was; but now every time tho agent took a bite the red man of i ho prairie felt tl-c emptiness within him growing vaster. When he shivered tho front pxrt of his body (Lipped against his sidno liVo the fore-course of a ship in a cairn roll. It was unbearable. With a war-whoop he sprang to his feet, leaving a libera! square of his trou-ers in the icy grasp of the bucket, nnd, clasping nig seal pin ir-knife ir-knife with deadly ferocity, be hounded upon the unsuspecting ugent. The battle was sharp, but victory quickly perched upon the standard of tho red man. In about a minute the agent lay on his back In tho wet snow, and Young-M.iti-Not-Afraid-of-Tearing- His- Pautuloons sat astride of him. trying to saw off a handful hand-ful of hair with tho tin scaiping-knife. "If Fat-Man Wilh-Uis-Mouth-Full-o'-Gingerbread desires to save hia hair," said the savage, "let him mnke restitution. restitu-tion. Give up that gingerbread or I'll saw your head off!" Under the circumstances Fat-Man had no choice. He gvo up tho gingerbread, and was afterwards lied to a hitching-post, hitching-post, where an imaginary fire was built around him, and he was subjected to various tortures, soma of which were not so imaginary as tho fire. It was big turn to sing the death song, and he did it so lustily that Undo Beujamin heard him and came to tho rescue. The situation situa-tion quickly changed Iu favor of the palo face. Uncle Csn look the offender back to the reservation and, having found a large thick shingle be appliod it in a manner to make little Johnny regret the tenacity with which his natural protector had adhered to the bottom of the bucket. Meanwhile little Tommy picked up the remainder of the gingerbread and devoured de-voured it. Uncle Benjsmin played the partof the Great White Father at Washington until little Johnny wished that he was a cherub with no necessity for sitting down and nothing to do it with, if tbe occasion should present itself. Then Uncle Benjamin settled the Indian question by saying: "If you ever act like tbat again I'll whale Ve within au luch o" yer life." AT. Y. World. ' ' J.ET THE FAT -HAN -WIT It OINGF.nBItF.AD- i , IN-1IIS-MOUT1I MAKE RESTITUTION. 'We'll play that this is the rescrva-i rescrva-i tion," said Johnny, pointing to a sunny , pot; "it's good suowballin' here which will be handy when I get ready to 'make S an attack on the ageucy." "Oh, no;" said Tommy, "the reservation reserva-tion is on the other side. This is tho gcney." Then he led Johnny to tbe jfc porth-east coiner of the barn where It was colder than Siberia and made him it down on the bottom of a bucket which was frozen into the ground. Tho wintry wind whistled through little Johnny's hair and he remarked: "Say, if this is going to bo tho reservation, there'll be an attack on the agency in about a quarter of a minute." "Oh, that's all right," replied Fat-Man-With-Boodle-in-His-Clothes, "it is the doty of the Government to furnish blankets for the redskin." ; So little Tommy went into the barn and got two blaukets, a fine large one for himsclf.and a thin one, full of holes, for the poor Injun. Young-Man-Not-Afraid, &c, kicked very hard at this distribution; and he wound up with a loud wrtr-whoop and the announcement that the attack on the agency was about to begin. But when he would have rison to execute vengeance, ho dis- covered that ho was immovably attached to the bucket. He was frozen upon the reservation. Tna CHEAT WniTE FATnF.n PUTS DOWST AN INDIAN OUTBREAK. When little Tommy perceived this condition of affairs he at once pointed out the fact that it was all in the game. He believed in playinggnmcs right down to tho cold facts, and he had read of many cases where similar but more extensive ex-tensive misfortunes had happened on the boundless prairies. Then Tommy made up a large quantity of hard snowballs snow-balls and played that he was a company of cavalry attacking an Indian village. Young-Man- Not-Afraid - of-Rat - Poison hurled his tomahawk, but as he could not go to get it again and the attacking force would not come witmn reach of his scalping-knife, he was thereafter defenseless, de-fenseless, and was massacred several times. Little Tommy taught him how to sing the death song and Insisted upon his bearing torture without tears. Then liulc Johnny shrewdly suggested a change in tbe gamo. "Don't the agency furnish the Injuns with rations?" he asked. Fat-Man- iVith"-Bobdie-in-IIis - Clothes admitted that there W3re treaties to that effect. "Well, you go in and get ma to give us some gingerbread," said Johnny. "I'd do it myself if I wasn't frozen to this blame bucket." So little Tommy went into the house and explaiued to little Johnny's mother the nature of the game thev were playing. play-ing. On behalf of tho poor Indian who Was obliged to pitch bis wigwam on the northeast corner of tho barn, he begged a piece of gingerbread. As for himself, him-self, he did not care for gingerbread. It Rindo his stomach ache. But Young-Man-Not-Afraid - of - Rat - Poison was bungry for it. Thereupon Tommy's aunt broke off a |