Arizona -- Juvenile fiction; Boy Scouts of America -- Juvenile fiction; Western stories
Possibly, if you were to pay a visit to the tribe, you might be tempted
to ask who a certain graceful young squaw is, whose buckskin garments
are literally covered with wonderful bead work, and round whose slender
neck hang so many chains of red, yellow, amber and blue globules that
you might be inclined to think it would make her stoop-shouldered.
If you asked her her name you would be told that she is Susyjan. She is
regarded as the most attractive young squaw in the tribe, and her
fortunate husband will have to give her old father many ponies and
blankets before he can hope to win her hand. The source of Susyjan's
beady splendor, however, has always, as you may imagine, remained a
mystery to the tribe.
Clark Jennings and his unworthy accomplices were tried in due course for
their offenses against the law, and received various heavy sentences. In
a Western community few more serious crimes, for obvious reasons, can
be committed than cattle stealing.
The days following the surrender of the renegade tribe were happy ones
for the young Eastern scouts. In due course of time, the uniforms Rob
had ordered for the Ranger Patrol arrived, and the organization is now
one of the most flourishing in the B. S. of A.
Hunting trips were organized and many excursions made into the
mountains. The boys, too, shared in the excitement of a round-up, and
proved themselves of use in many ways. Altogether, the Boy Scouts has
become a name to conjure with in that part of Arizona.
What became of Silver Tip?
Well, the story of how Rob had Silver Tip at his mercy, and let the huge
brute go, has become a ranch classic. This is no place to relate it at
length, but one day on a mountain hunt the monarch of the hills and the
boy who had once rushed wildly upon the monster's shaggy form, met face
to face.
Did Silver Tip recognize the lad? Who can tell? Animals possess many
faculties and instincts we do not credit them with. Be that as it may,
it seemed to the imaginative Rob that the monster's eyes bore a craven
look, as if he realized that judgment was come upon him. Rob stood alone
upon a rocky ledge. Below him the great brute gazed upward, in the
position he had frozen into on his first discovery of the young hunter.
Rob raised his heavy rifle to his shoulder. The great creature was at
his mercy. He paused an instant and then slowly lowered the weapon
again.
"Go on, old Silver Tip!" he said. "Let some one else wipe out your
wicked old life."
Tubby was highly indignant when he heard of this.
"Gee whiz!" he exclaimed, "you ought to have thought of me, Rob. I've
been hearing about bear steak ever since I've been out here, and now
I've lost about the only chance I've ever had to stick my teeth into
one."
One day a letter came to the ranch house which caused several long faces
to be drawn. It announced the opening, within a week, of the Hampton
Academy.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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