The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . - penny that hecould get was saved for firearms. His motherworried about him, and his father determined tocure him by giving him a taste of the West. He sent him to a brother in Ne-braska, who, when on a visitto New^ York, had been pilotedby Jimmie through all dangersof the east side. Give himto me, said Uncle Pat toJimmies father; Ill curehim of his Indian fever. Weveplenty of red devils in Ne-He Fought a Wooden Indian, braska. Jimmie weut to Ne-braska and became one of his unc
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . - penny that hecould get was saved for firearms. His motherworried about him, and his father determined tocure him by giving him a taste of the West. He sent him to a brother in Ne-braska, who, when on a visitto New^ York, had been pilotedby Jimmie through all dangersof the east side. Give himto me, said Uncle Pat toJimmies father; Ill curehim of his Indian fever. Weveplenty of red devils in Ne-He Fought a Wooden Indian, braska. Jimmie weut to Ne-braska and became one of his uncles cow^ soon discovered that the ranch bordered on thereservation of the Crow Indians. They were per-fectly harmless, but Uncle Pat did not tell that toJimmie; on the contrary, he and the ranchers toldhim many wild stories of the blood-thirsty Pat arranged with some of the Indians togive Jimmie a scare and drive the fever outof him. One day, while he was at work, a partyof the Indians appeared by the river and beganto move stealthily toward him. They made be- 394. NEW YORK CITY LIFE lieve fish tijtstr-am in his dirrction, and hr watcluMlthem carefully, until suddenlj- they threw downtheir fishiny;-r(>ds, picked up their rifles, ^ave theirAvar-wlioop, and rushed for the unprotected farmhands, who, in furtherance of the joke, fled in aj)-parent dismay. The Indians fired rapidl}-, and oc-casionally a white man fell to the ground, pretend-ing to be hurt. Presently Jimmie was alone, forall of his felUWs were stretched on the his Bowery courage asserted itself, and hedetermined to sell his Hfe dearly. He drew a re-volver that he had bought in a Park Row storeand fired rapidly. The first bullet missed, the sec-ond struck the right ear of Chief Red Eagle, thethird hit the chiefs son-in-law; and then the In-dians turned and fied. with Jimmie in full Pat shipped Jinunie back to the Bower}- tosave him from the vengeance of the redskin
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