The acme magazine . akesfourteenth daughter, andsaid to be the most ex-pert maker of sofka andtomfuller on DeepFork. Just what wasthe consideration paidfor Ta-la-la none everknew, but it was report-ed at the next buske thatCrazy Snake had givenhim the pick of all hisdaughters on the solecondition of his that as it may, Pushled his second bride tohis dug-out, where, hereasoned with the best moccasinmaker and the best sofka brewerin the tribe, he was indeed a fa-vorite of fortune. Push-ma-ta-ha nowsettled down to enjoy life. Through thegood offices of a walnut-log shark, whodenuded hi
The acme magazine . akesfourteenth daughter, andsaid to be the most ex-pert maker of sofka andtomfuller on DeepFork. Just what wasthe consideration paidfor Ta-la-la none everknew, but it was report-ed at the next buske thatCrazy Snake had givenhim the pick of all hisdaughters on the solecondition of his that as it may, Pushled his second bride tohis dug-out, where, hereasoned with the best moccasinmaker and the best sofka brewerin the tribe, he was indeed a fa-vorite of fortune. Push-ma-ta-ha nowsettled down to enjoy life. Through thegood offices of a walnut-log shark, whodenuded his land of its valuable timber,he got a log cabin erected, and to an in-truder he gave a lease of fine land for anominal rental of Sofka corn, so, thatnow with every contingency providedfor, and two industrious squaws to at-tend his wants, he felt that he could af-ford to take things easy. He lost in-terest in the buske and ball games, andwas only seen away from home at infre-quent intervals, but it was observed that. Miss Elizabeth King his private brand, a curious combinationof a lazy s and half circle bar, becamemore and more frequent, and his bunchof ponies steadily increased in numbers,until within a very few years he becameone of the rich men of the tribe. Withinanother year a third addition had beenerected to his now pretentious lodge, anda third Mrs. Push-ma-ta-ha installedtherein, and to her was assigned the taskof cultivating the six acre field of cornand potatoes. Peach and locust treeshad been planted round about the place,and these had grown until the cabinswere almost hidden from view. In themeantime Red Wing had given birth toa son, and often he would bring out the_____ board to which the babe was strapped, and stand-ing it up against a treewhere the light wasgood, he would spendhours smoking and con-templating the wonder-ful infant blinking in thesun. By this time Push-ma-ta-ha had come to belooked upon as a greatman. Here he was atan age when most menwere scarce
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