Genealogy and recollections . ors, there came a squaw and took hold of my blanket;I saw how the game was played, I just threw it off and gaveit to her; then there came up a young squaw abouteleven or twelve years old and took hold of my did not want to let that go, as it was a very cold day,and I let on I did not understand what she appeared to be very much ashamed and went older squaws encouraged and persuaded her to tryit again; she came up the second time and took hold ofmy shirt again, I still pretended to be ignorant, but she heldfast. I knew it would have to g
Genealogy and recollections . ors, there came a squaw and took hold of my blanket;I saw how the game was played, I just threw it off and gaveit to her; then there came up a young squaw abouteleven or twelve years old and took hold of my did not want to let that go, as it was a very cold day,and I let on I did not understand what she appeared to be very much ashamed and went older squaws encouraged and persuaded her to tryit again; she came up the second time and took hold ofmy shirt again, I still pretended to be ignorant, but she heldfast. I knew it would have to go. One of the warriors thenstepped up and told me to let her have it. I then pulled itoff and gave it to her. The old squaws laughed very muchat the voung squaw. I was then quite naked and it was avery cold day; I had nothing on me but moccasins, leggingsand breachcloth. We remained there about 3 or 4 warriors then went out to the war post to dance. Theyinvited me to go with them to dance. I did so; they sung [ 142]. Scenes at our RanchoGolf, Driving, Trap-Shooting APPENDIX and danced around the war-post for about half an old Indians would sing and dance sometimes out ofthe ring and appeared very lively. The warriors thenmarched right off from their dance on their journey. Wehad not got further than about 50 or 60 yards when Ilooked back and saw a squaw running with a blanket; shethrew it on my shoulders, it fell down. I turned round andpicked it up, it was a very old, dirty, lousy blanket, thoughit was better than nothing as the day was very cold. Wetraveled about five or six miles that evening, then en-camped in the woods. I suffered very much that night fromthe cold. The tenth day we traveled five or six miles in the morn-ing. We got within a quarter of a mile of a new town, onthe west bank of the Wabash River, where those warriorsresided, about nine oclock, and made a halt at a runningbranch of water, where the timber was very thick, so thatthey could con
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