| Show FRIENDLY INDIANS Tulula Nelson Mt Pleasant Senior Utah Division First Place Short Story Willard Frandsen was born intopolygamous home the youngest son of ten children The two mothers in this home were sisters each having five children Laterthird wife came into the family and she and her family Tived inhouse near the edge As in all pioneer families of town there was much work to be dome Will at very early age was given the job of herding the cows The brushland outside of town was used for the settlermilk cows but someone must watch them and not allow them into the fields of alfalfa and grain Will Toved the freedom of roaming the countryside Other boys his own age and sometimes young Indians would come to play with him Their carefree ways and strange customs made much fun for them all He learned their Tanguage and why and and taught them some English words His mother often wondered one small boy could eat so much lunch especially the ripe summer apples she sent with him The little Indians loved butter and especially the apples and vegetables One day some Indian got Will to come to their camp tomatoes his bread to eat with them When he saw the mother roasting grasshoppers on the open fire and shaping dough flat cakes on her leg above her knee he suddenly lost his appetite and madedash hill where tree stump for home they would the dark hunt first where usually outrun him hole He loved bird bird to wander nests and had built black snake jumped eggs the Indians He would nest One time he was first large with but their in the Cedar try to get Tight to the feet would but when he thrust his arm into out beside his arm His friends hadgood laugh at his fright as they loved the wild creatures and often played with In Thistle War was black snakes and tarantulas September 1872 Brigham Young came to ask Will if he would go to Valley and tell the Indians the peace treaty ending the Black Hawk to be signed in Mt Pleasant He could talk the Indian language quite well and the prophet promised him safe return if he would go on this mission Will was willing to go since he had redman Also some of his young friends lived he Teft with the message and found Wapet the message and the Indians followed him back to more love than fear for the there Early one morning leader delivered the sign or make their mark on the document He often told his children how he got his ears boxed by an Indian Willfather was giving an Indian some flour When he Tifted the 100 pound seamless sack to pour some into the Indiansack the flour clogged Wi1l put his hand into the sack to keep the flour pouring freely The old buck head misunderstood His the father said gesture nothing and gave just -66 himsound figured the boy slap had on the received side of the lesson |
