Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 95423-h.htm or 95423-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/95423/95423-h/95423-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/95423/95423-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/b29012338 Transcriber’s note: Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). HUNTING INDIANS IN A TAXI-CAB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: TACOMUS] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HUNTING INDIANS IN A TAXI-CAB by KATE SANBORN Author of “Adopting an Abandoned Farm,” etc., etc. [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press Boston Copyright 1911, by Richard G. Badger All rights reserved The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Yes sir, you do well to purchase one of these figures, for sir, the Indians on the American Continent is fastly disappearing, both in flesh and wood.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Tacomus Frontispiece My nameless, footless Squaw 15 A young and pretty mother 21 A Highland Chieftain 21 A Brave Gazing 21 On the Watch 21 The Goddess of Liberty and three 25 other attractive Ladies Squaw with Papoose and other 29 charmers Saint Tammany of the Delaware Tribe 33 “We are tending strictly to 33 business” A Representative of the National 39 Game Jockey with cigar box 39 Hunter 39 Policeman 39 Sothern as “Dundreary”—the others 43 you may name as you please Punch with Impressive Nose 47 Another Punch, less fortunate 47 Punchinello and Nondescript 47 Puck 47 Jim Crow, made 87 years ago 51 Please name him? 51 Four of a Kind 55