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Show 51 learn to write, and we found leaves with the word "LONE" printed by his fingernail. His adoring eyes followed her constantly. Some weeks later we read in the paper how an Indian couple had been murdered in a box car in Ogden. The story line said it was a young wife, running away from her husband with another Indian. Lonnie had followed and killed them both. Papa was well acquainted with the Kanosh Indians, the Pahvant tribe of the Utes, and the older ones were his friends, Hunkup, the chief, self-appointed bishop, and his wife Suzie, especially so. They passed through town once or twice a year with all their tousled children, lean dogs, and tents. They always camped near our place and the children would go to their camp to gawp at them. We watched the women squat flat on the ground, mix dough and cook it on the hot rocks, and were entranced. They proceeded about their business as if we weren't there. Hunkup and Suzie always came to the house. Mama and Papa visited with them, finding out all the latest developments. "You catch-um many papoose?" Suzie inquired sociably of Mama. "Yeh! Me catch-um, " Mama would reply. "Lotsa papoose. " "Heap Wino!" congratulated Susie. (Very good!) When Mama had prepared the food and sent us to call Papa and Hunkup to dinner they took their time about coming, while the food cooled on the table. We were dispatched again, and yet again. |