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Excerpt from Days at Mount Vernon: A Collection of Authentic Incidents in Modern Times
IT was one summer day, many years ago now, that Red Cloud came, with his thirty Sioux braves, all more or less famed for martial exploits. Some of them had scalp-locks attached to their belts. They wore heavy blankets, though the weather was warm, some of them gray, some red, others gaily striped in various colors. They had evidently bedecked them'selves, for a festive occasion, with their showiest paint, beads, necklaces and feathers. A11 carried the fatal toma hawk at their sides. One fellow had an oyster-shell tail several yards long attached to his person, and cast a back ward glance at it now and then, with all the conscious pride of a ball-room belle, or a barnyard peacock. Colonel Dodge, an Indian agent, had brought them on this excursion, as a recreation from their business engagements in Washington; so if they failed to get all they'wanted from the Great Chief and the Secretary of the Interior, they would at least have one pleasant memory to carry home with them.
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