“THUNDERING HOOFS” AND “SHOUTING WIND”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 919, 12 March 1930, Page 14

“THUNDERING HOOFS” AND “SHOUTING WIND”

THE names Silver Moccasin and Flying Cloud were given as examples in the last pen-name competition, and by a strange coincidence the two members known in the Wigwam, by those names hax - e carried oft' the prizes. Silver Moccasin’s list for boys has a true Indian ring. What youth would not like to be called “Thundering Hoofs” or “Swooping Eagle”? Flying Cloud suggests a “Shouting Wind” and a “Fire Dreamer”—both virile pen-names. The names for girls are of more fragile origin, and who knows but that a “Drifting Feather” and a “Golden Butterfly” may seek the Wigwam trail together? Among the other lists we have a “Spear Thrower,” a “Buffalo Hunter,” a “Running Fox” and a “Bounding Moose,” to say nothing of a “White Squirrel,” a “Sunbeam Catcher” and a “Tethered Dream.” As a test for originality a pen-name competition always proves popular, but, of course, if you were really Redskins you might be called “Two-wing-featliers-flying-with-the-wind” or even “Little-hunted-rabbit-zig-zagging-tlirough-the-snow.” REDFEATHER,.