. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . Tailing Axbmtft. Two Little Savages thing of the past—but in his mind, his living v, present. And the strongest, realest thing in it all was, notthe rugged stranger with his kind ways, not the newbirds and plants, but the smell of the Wintergreen. Smells appeal to the memory is far better, stronger,more real than that of any other sense. The Indiansknow this; many of them, in time, find out the smellthat conjures up their happiest hours, and keepit by them in t
. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . Tailing Axbmtft. Two Little Savages thing of the past—but in his mind, his living v, present. And the strongest, realest thing in it all was, notthe rugged stranger with his kind ways, not the newbirds and plants, but the smell of the Wintergreen. Smells appeal to the memory is far better, stronger,more real than that of any other sense. The Indiansknow this; many of them, in time, find out the smellthat conjures up their happiest hours, and keepit by them in the medicine bag. It is very real anddear to them—that handful of Pine needles, thatlump of Rat-musk, or that piece of Spruce adds the crown of happy memory to their reveries. And yet this belief is one of the first attacked bysilly White-men, wh> profess to enlighten the Red-mans darkness. They, in their ignorance, denounceit as absurd, while men of science know its simpletruth. Yan did not know that he had stumbled on asecret of the Indian medicine bag. But ever after-ward that wonderful day was called back to. him,conjured up by
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