Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . ad seen. A whiteman showed them a queer-looking stick. Hepoured some black sand into his hand and theninto a hole in this stick. He took a round thingout of a bag and put this also into the stick. The Indians watched him very closely. Thewhite man began to make strange signs to theIndians; but they did not understand. He madea loud noise with his mouth and pointed to thestick. He put his finger on the under part of it andmotioned for the Indians to do the same. Oneof the Indians did so and there was a terriblecrash. The Indians were very much frigh
Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . ad seen. A whiteman showed them a queer-looking stick. Hepoured some black sand into his hand and theninto a hole in this stick. He took a round thingout of a bag and put this also into the stick. The Indians watched him very closely. Thewhite man began to make strange signs to theIndians; but they did not understand. He madea loud noise with his mouth and pointed to thestick. He put his finger on the under part of it andmotioned for the Indians to do the same. Oneof the Indians did so and there was a terriblecrash. The Indians were very much frightened forthey had never seen or heard a gun were not long in learning the power ofthis queer stick. The white men showed them their knives andaxes, and how to use them. The Indians weresurprised to see how quickly a white man cut alog in two with a big axe. They wanted guns, The Coming of the White Man. 17 knives, and axes themselves. They soon foundthat the white men would give them these thingsin exchano^e for skins of KNIVES AND AXES. III. INDIANS AND HORSES. Once a man was in camp near an unfriendlytribe of Indians. He had not been able to killany game for some time, and so he had no last he decided to ride into the Indians campand offer to exchange his horse for food. This tribe of Indians had never seen the man came riding in, an old chief said: Here is something very strange. I have heardof many wonderful things; but I have neverheard of anything like this. This thing musthave come from the sun or out of the earth. Donot say anything to it. Be still and wait. If wetry to hurt it, perhaps it will go into that hillagain. i8 Stories of Pioneer Life. At first the Indians were very much frightened,but as it came nearer they saw that it was a manriding a strange animal. The man patted the horses neck, and madesigns to show that he was friendly. At last hemade the Indians understand that he had beenwithout food for a long time, and would
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