People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — A Friendly Settlement. [ARTICLE]

A Friendly Settlement.

Maj. Campion, in his book “On the Frontier,” describes a deer hunt, in the course of which he found his dog astride the dead body of a deer, while an Indian stood a little way off, bow and arrow in hand. By signs he made the white man understand that he had wounded the deer and the dog pulled it down. Then he cut up the deer, tied the fore half of it up in the skin and placed it on one side. The other half he laid at Maj. Campion’s feet, delivering himself of a speech in the Ute language. The white man understood his meaning, but not a word of his address. The Indian and the dog had killed the deer together, and the dog’s owner was entitled to half the game. The major was equal to the emergency. He rose and delivered in full the classical declamation: “My name is Norval,” with appropriate gestures, just as he had many times given it at school. Nothing could have been better. The Indian and the white man shook hands with effusion and each with his share of the venison rode away.