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THE INDIAN CHILD. 39
I then asked her *-lr.dla-i come iu pL'tite?' That is will llic Indian come back .*oon. She said, "ah moon,' pointing toward the east. By this she meard that the Indian would bf? back by the next snn-risc. A< I came back iiy AFr. Hibbard's I U)ld him to come up and tell mc if {hclndi:\n came thai niglilso Iha*^^ I could go down and i^L'i the Indian w.)rds lor sc:n' ami foi^i. If he dai noi come up I would keep waicli for him as he came ilown Uoiu liio we.:t iu the morning.
At half |»aal nine Hie iie.\t f.»r;»MO:ui all those who had been notified to meet at Air. S.:sdoas' vho could b^'presen?, were on hantl. Tiif>sc who took jiart in r'scuin:r llie b'^y were the live Dieler Viroihers, Joe and AVm. Hibbard, E. C Sessions, Judi^e Ware. O V, Dreutzer, Al- frefl Wood v.ard. ?dOSes Buckman, (jleo. AA^ Ro::s, AA'ard Lent. J. M. Vauirhan, lohn M. Dewey, Jas. Thomas, Granvil Jones, A. B. Gee, A. Hitchcock, J. Taliday and yf>ur lunnhlc servant. 1 left tlie com¬ pany which W.IS collected al »he nf>rl!i end of .Alain .street wliere Mr. Sessions lived, and look my stand near the present .site of G. L. Lord's house, lo aw.iit liiC re*.urn of tiie Indians. I had b'.'ea ihoro ubout fifteen minutes wiien I saw Peter coming over the liill h.ick f)f Judge Si^.oti's house. I ran down lo meet him, coming to him In Ihe hollow south of the jail. After Ihe usual salutation, 1 said pf>niting to a .scar on my haiul, "vv-e call ihat a scar, what df» you call it ?" Htt lold me and I wroie il down on r piece of paper 1 had brought f»n* Ihe pur¬ pose. The:i pointing at one of my feel 1 said, "we call that a foot. what do you call il ?" Mo told me, and I wrote that word down. Then I told him, "there are heaps and heaps of smokiman up here and are going down to get the i>ipor/sc. You stole it when it was a ll>etitepapf)ose» W^inneb.igo two ycai'i m the sugar-bush, smokiman's papoose, smt>k!man coming, scar on the foot and we'r going to have it." He raised his eye-broA's and said, "f)h I oh! oh !" Says I "3'es we are." At this he ran for the tent a.s fast as ever I saw a man run. I hastened 'o where the men were but the Indian was out of sight when I got up to them. They wanted to know if I had the words. "Here's liio documeat," said I, showing the paper. I told thorn of the Indicia's actions, and Ware antl Vaughn said wc? heller get down to the lent as soon as we ^Ould. AVe did nuike quick time g«>ing down, you belter believe, for we thought they might .skip out wilh the boy. When wc reached
Object Description
| Title | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Title of work | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Short title | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Author | Dewey, Freeman Dana |
| Description | In his 1887 work, Freeman Dana Dewey describes how Waupaca became the county seat of Waupaca County, the Indians who lived in the area, the early days of European settlement, and the first schools in Waupaca. |
| Publisher (Original) | Rep. Print |
| Publication Date (Original) | 1887 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
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| Publication Date-Electronic | 2008 |
| Identifier-Digital | Waup1887000 |
| State | Wisconsin; |
| County | Waupaca County; |
| Decade | 1840-1849; 1850-1859; 1860-1869; 1870-1879; 1880-1889; |
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| Title | 39 |
| Page Number | 39 |
| Title of work | Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
| Author | Dewey, Freeman Dana |
| Publication Date (Original) | 1887 |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
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| Full Text | THE INDIAN CHILD. 39 I then asked her *-lr.dla-i come iu pL'tite?' That is will llic Indian come back .*oon. She said, "ah moon,' pointing toward the east. By this she meard that the Indian would bf? back by the next snn-risc. A< I came back iiy AFr. Hibbard's I U)ld him to come up and tell mc if {hclndi:\n came thai niglilso Iha*^^ I could go down and i^L'i the Indian w.)rds lor sc:n' ami foi^i. If he dai noi come up I would keep waicli for him as he came ilown Uoiu liio we.:t iu the morning. At half |»aal nine Hie iie.\t f.»r;»MO:ui all those who had been notified to meet at Air. S.:sdoas' vho could b^'presen?, were on hantl. Tiif>sc who took jiart in r'scuin:r llie b'^y were the live Dieler Viroihers, Joe and AVm. Hibbard, E. C Sessions, Judi^e Ware. O V, Dreutzer, Al- frefl Wood v.ard. ?dOSes Buckman, (jleo. AA^ Ro::s, AA'ard Lent. J. M. Vauirhan, lohn M. Dewey, Jas. Thomas, Granvil Jones, A. B. Gee, A. Hitchcock, J. Taliday and yf>ur lunnhlc servant. 1 left tlie com¬ pany which W.IS collected al »he nf>rl!i end of .Alain .street wliere Mr. Sessions lived, and look my stand near the present .site of G. L. Lord's house, lo aw.iit liiC re*.urn of tiie Indians. I had b'.'ea ihoro ubout fifteen minutes wiien I saw Peter coming over the liill h.ick f)f Judge Si^.oti's house. I ran down lo meet him, coming to him In Ihe hollow south of the jail. After Ihe usual salutation, 1 said pf>niting to a .scar on my haiul, "vv-e call ihat a scar, what df» you call it ?" Htt lold me and I wroie il down on r piece of paper 1 had brought f»n* Ihe pur¬ pose. The:i pointing at one of my feel 1 said, "we call that a foot. what do you call il ?" Mo told me, and I wrote that word down. Then I told him, "there are heaps and heaps of smokiman up here and are going down to get the i>ipor/sc. You stole it when it was a ll>etitepapf)ose» W^inneb.igo two ycai'i m the sugar-bush, smokiman's papoose, smt>k!man coming, scar on the foot and we'r going to have it." He raised his eye-broA's and said, "f)h I oh! oh !" Says I "3'es we are." At this he ran for the tent a.s fast as ever I saw a man run. I hastened 'o where the men were but the Indian was out of sight when I got up to them. They wanted to know if I had the words. "Here's liio documeat" said I, showing the paper. I told thorn of the Indicia's actions, and Ware antl Vaughn said wc? heller get down to the lent as soon as we ^Ould. AVe did nuike quick time g«>ing down, you belter believe, for we thought they might .skip out wilh the boy. When wc reached |
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