Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin

              THE   INDIAN   CHILD. 55
mailed ; it was very gummy and sticky; the water in which, it was WM^hetl was .«\urh coloretl—black, s<^ black that the bollom tif the vessel could uo! be seen. I had Ufit as niiich rectmrse to him as I could wish. I wa-hed his fee', and they were whit*, not colored like, odier paris of his body, lie now lias scars on eacii side of his mouth, on his stomach, f«»ur under his chin, and tme on his side; he said (so iuterpret(-d l(» me) that they were made by somelhinir the size of hi:-* linger, formetl It) make sears; he called it inediciitC. There was sinf)ke seen the-niornin^' :dter he wa.s lost, supposed to be made by the Indi¬ ans, on a little island. Aiy oldest girl thought ho was her brother when first shown to her; she had no doubt about il ; the school chil¬ dren thought it tin-lost child. He said liie while folks wauled to skin him, and make a white child of hiin ; he saiil that Le dare ntit lell Ihal he was a whi'.e child
Cross Examinetl—I rt;cf)gnized him wdien brought lo my house: tlionghl him my child when he gtit warm; at first, wdien he came he wa.s mnftled up, and I exclaimed that he was not my child ; when un- wrappcal and warmed I thought him my child. I have heard him speak some English wf)rds. He w^as four yt-ars old w^hcn lf)S^; I have iricd every possible means to learn ihat he is my child. I have iioi htid his afTections as much as I could wish; have not hail as full ac¬ cess If) him as I desired. 1 can recollect back to three yt^irs of age but at Ihat time no im[>ortanl lac: was impivssed on my mind. I cantsa.y I should have remembered il if I had h'cn laken by the In- flians !Vt that age, I could recfignize any marks on the child when lost; there was a small cut which left a scar. Th's boy has not a flat head behind, is round sliouidered, and b)etl out; thi'ik he looks like bis grandmother. I Udd Mr Powell I thought it my child; lie did not put the ques'iou, "do you and Mr. Partridge claim that child." Mr. Povvell came to tmr house late at night, after the child hatl been tauen from his residence: said he had been It) the Pay-grountl anti fopiid facts, and had come to satisfy us that il was not our child; wc let the child go back because we could not keep the Indians; did not let the child go willingly: could nt)t say I tfdd Mr Cfioley that I was afraid iny^iffectifins were becoming lf)0 much cantered on the cliild: he lold ine not to )et them and warned me against it.   The child  has