The acme magazine . and write a letterto the Superintendent atChilicco, telling himwhat sort of a proposi-tion we are sendinghim. Within a week therewas a transformationscene in the appearanceof our financier such asa green room never wit-nessed. Instead of hisglossy braids, his headwas nearly as bald as anew-born babes, madeso by the school barber;in the place of the brightblanket which he had worn with the graceof a gondolier at a Worlds Fair, he worea cadet uniform of gray, while hard un-comfortable shoes tortured his feet,which had only known the soft beadedmoccasin before. His own mother
The acme magazine . and write a letterto the Superintendent atChilicco, telling himwhat sort of a proposi-tion we are sendinghim. Within a week therewas a transformationscene in the appearanceof our financier such asa green room never wit-nessed. Instead of hisglossy braids, his headwas nearly as bald as anew-born babes, madeso by the school barber;in the place of the brightblanket which he had worn with the graceof a gondolier at a Worlds Fair, he worea cadet uniform of gray, while hard un-comfortable shoes tortured his feet,which had only known the soft beadedmoccasin before. His own mother wouldnot have recognized her offspring. Themetamorphosis was more complete thanany he had ever wrought with knife andbranding iron On steer or pony. We will not undertake to follow Pushthrough his four years of thralldom. Atfirst he rebelled a few times, and escap-ing the guards returned to his home andhid out, but the police always found himand returned him to the School wherehe was given extra hateful tasks by way. of punishment which soon cured him,and he finally buckled down and becamea model student, winning thereby thegolden opinions of the teachers, andwhat was more to him, many liberties hewould otherwise have forfeited. At lastthe glad day came when the door openedto the prairies, and four years older anda hundred years wiser he hearkened toThe call of the wild. He could nowboth speak and write English, but hehad no intention of making use of thatknowledge. He knew there were pen-alties for violating laws and determinednot to be caught in the violation. Heknew the uses of the plow, the ax* andthe hoe, but he had not the slightest ideaof putting his hard-earned experience intopractice. All he wishedwas to forget. In his fathers housethere was plenty, and hisfathers wives, his ownmother among them,gave him open-handedwelcome, and there hesat down to wait, whilehis hair grew long. By the time of thenext Sun Dance he was,was, to all appearances,fully recovered from theeffe
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