Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin

              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