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Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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a knowledge of nature that wouldput to shame most civilized boys of twice hisyears. Many times he took the lead, and sel-dom failed to find what he was after. Sometimes we would take our ponies acrossthe river, and ride up into the canons, spendingthe day wandering about the little parks, orclimbing to the almost inaccessible prehistoric was too small to attract his attention, and thenthe craft of his hunting ancestors would comeforth. He would glide upon the game withthe stealth of a cat, and more than once hecame strutting back with a bird or little cotton-tail tied to his belt. The little Ute was a leading spirit among themore docile Pueblo boys, whom he ruled like alittle chief, and many were the forays he ledagainst stray dogs from another village. Even inthe adult dances his small figure, dressed in reg-ular dance costume, would be seen bobbing upand down in perfect time to the beat of a drum. During the hot, dry summer weather thepeople slept on their roofs, and with the first
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stone villages on top of the mesas, there to streak of light in the east the pueblo was astir,hunt for stone arrow-tips, axes, and other re- Down in the plaza, the children would be play-mains of the old Pueblos. His eyes were very ing at their various games, many of them withkeen, and many were the additions he made to little brothers or sisters strapped to their backs,my collection. All the time the spirit of the Among them, leading in some heroic sport, Ihunter was uppermost in him; no animal would always see my miniature chieftain. >9°3.) A MINIATURE CHIEFTAIN. 415 One evening, as the shadows lengthened made for his own village, yelping at every and the wind subsided, I went around behind jump. He had come to forage upon the en- a sandstone butte that stood up from the plain emys camp, but Agoya and his band soon like an old castle, and climbed on top, where drove him off. It was a glorious victory for

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