Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — Never Tired. [ARTICLE]

Never Tired.

When this country was first settled, there was an impression among the colonists that the Indians had no intelligence or craft in their relations with the white men. The latter soon found, however, that this was not the case. Some of the farmers attempted to make farm servants of the Indians, but found that they had a propensity to “get tired” so soon after they began work that their services were of little value. One day a farmer was visited by a stalwart Indian, who said: “Me want work.” “No,” said the farmer, “vou will get tired.” “No, no,” said the Indian, “me never get tired!” The farmer, taking his word for it, set the Indian at work and went away about some other business. Toward noon he returned to the place and found the Indian sound asleep under a tree. “Look here, look here,” shouted the farmer, shaking the Indian violently, “you told me that you never got tired, and yet here you are stretched out on the ground!” “Ugh!” said the Indian, rubbing his eyes and slowly clambering to his feet, “if me not lie down, me get tired like the rest!”— Exchange.