. The master of the strong hearts : a story of Custer's last rally . white boysbreast with his brown fingers, the young Indian said: How! And Jack replied as peacefully, How!—thefriendly salutation between the red man and thewhite, abbreviated from our every-day How d yedo ? White boy heap scared, the young Indianwent on. Run like coyote. Dont know me—Young Wolf ? Like a flash there came back to Jack Huntingdonthat April adventure on the East Side: the narrow,noisome, New York street, the yelling pack of tor-menting urchins, the Indian at bay, the onset ofthe Law, the walk up the Bowery! And t
. The master of the strong hearts : a story of Custer's last rally . white boysbreast with his brown fingers, the young Indian said: How! And Jack replied as peacefully, How!—thefriendly salutation between the red man and thewhite, abbreviated from our every-day How d yedo ? White boy heap scared, the young Indianwent on. Run like coyote. Dont know me—Young Wolf ? Like a flash there came back to Jack Huntingdonthat April adventure on the East Side: the narrow,noisome, New York street, the yelling pack of tor-menting urchins, the Indian at bay, the onset ofthe Law, the walk up the Bowery! And this wasYoung Wolf! With an almost hysterical laugh ofrelief—and what a relief it was!—he flung out bothhands in greeting. Why, yes, I remember you, he said. I sawyou in New York. Why under the sun did nt yousay who you were without running me down like abighorn ? Young Wolf laughed heartily—for Indians canlaugh heartily. Boy scared before hurt/1 he said. YoungWolf try to tell; boy run like wind. What here for ? Young Wolf was evidently quite in love with. TACK AND YOUNG WOLt- Page 24. HO W JA CK HUNTINGDON GOT A NEW NAME. 2 $ himself for his proficiency in English. To Jack itwas a welcome surprise. Why, where did you pick up so much English,Young Wolf ? he asked. You talk like a whiteman. You could nt talk at all in New York. Whotaught you ? Young Wolf beamed his acknowledgment. Evi-dently to him, as to that English student of anearlier day, praise from Sir Hubert Stanley waspraise indeed! Young Wolf learn in white boys land, he ex-plained, and from Po-to-sha-sha. Poto—which-which ? Who s he ? queriedJack. Po-to-sha-sha—Red Top—squaw-man in tepee,the Indian explained, laughing; from which Jack,drawing upon his lately acquired knowledge of In-dian life and ways, concluded that Young Wolfsteacher in English had been a red-haired white man,living, as such outcasts of civilization often did, be-cause of their marriage to Indian wives, in thelodges of the red men, an
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