AN INDIAN OTHELLO—HE DOES HIS WORK THOROUGHLY.
I An Indian at the Winnebago agency must have seen " Othello " acted some time when he was on a visit to his Great Father at Washington. At any rate, he applied the medicine of the play to his own family disorders, and carried out the plot pretty literally. He suspected his wife of behaving in a manner derogatory to the family dignity and honour by loving some other Indian better than she did him. He watched for the other Indian and slew him without explanation. He then went home and told his wife to say her last words. She said she didn't do it, and begged him not to kill her just then. But he had already waded in blood, and took another step by plunging a long knife into her heart. He then turned the reeking blade on himself, and his soul trooped with the others to the happy hunting grounds, where they all expect to live in peace. This jealous Indian finished up the whole business very thoroughly, and proved the benign effects of the agency of civilisation.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 414, 9 October 1875, Page 3
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187AN INDIAN OTHELLO—HE DOES HIS WORK THOROUGHLY. Globe, Volume IV, Issue 414, 9 October 1875, Page 3
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