WENT TO FIGHT INDIANS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1624, 30 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

WENT TO FIGHT INDIANS.

Of all the Brooklyn boys who have gone out to fi"ht Indians, news of only one has been received by his distracted parents* It >vas nearly a year ago, that he started out, and after skirmishing around on the plains of Arizona for a few weeks, partially for enemies, but chiefly for grub, he fell in with a red-skin ""Where are you from, boy?" asked the Indian, turning him upside down, to empty the cartridges out of his pockets. « Brooklyn, sir," sniffed the boy. " How are things there, boy ?" demanded the savage, building a fire, and putting the pot on to boil. " I'd like to go back and see," sobbed the "I don't think you'll fetch it," mused the red-skin, slicing an onion with the boy's bowie knife, and stirring it into the boiling water with the youngster's rifle, "It looks to the howling chief of the wilderness, as though you were going to stay about here. What's that in your after gangway, boy?" " A pistol, sir," confessed the wretched urchin. ' "You'll perpetuate peace, between yoar people and mine, by handing it over, boy," observed the great uncivilized. And as he accepted this weapon with appropriate remarks, he dropped some pepper and salt in the stew. " I'd like to go home!" pleaded the youngster, and having tracked the foe to his lair, didn't regard the situation as perfectly salutary from a hygienic stand-point, "If you please, I think they arc waiting for me." " Very likely, observed the dusky prisoner. " You've seen 'em cook a lobster, boy." The boy confessed to having assisted aj; a solemnity of that description. " Very good, boy, then you've got some idea of the entertainment I'm getting up. Come boy !" And~the .savage dumped the youthful scout into tho pot, and stirred him around until he was edible. It is not pretended that this is the fate of all the Brooklyn boys who have gone out, because no trace of any of the rest has ever been arrived at, but the inference is, that this particular Brooklyn boy got off rather light, since the result of his expedition has been arrived at. Boys desirous of figuring on this thing, are urged to try Arizona, while the buffalo are in the North. There is no difficulty in finding Indians at this season.— Brooklyn Eagle.