Somewhere in the depths of a dark canyon among the redwoods, the wild
Indians had carried Os-slock-o-may. When they reached their hiding
place, one of the Indians made her his wife, after the fashion of a
primeval wedding. The wild Indians are always very rich in all kinds
of Indian wealth, and this wild Indian dressed his bride in the most
beautiful of Indian dresses, made of buck skin and ornamented with
shells, and lavished wealth upon her. A little son came to their home
in the wilds, of which they were both very proud, and they watched
the little baby grow into a robust, handsome little fellow, who by
nature inherited the ways of his father, as soon as he was big enough
to walk and talk. He would run away from his mother and skip among the
trees, romp among the bushes and seemingly never grow tired of his wild
revelry; he would talk and whistle to himself, and this grieved his
mother very much, as she had tried every plan to subdue him from his
wild romping but of no avail. When the boy was about six years of age,
his mother became very lonesome for her people, and wished very much
to see them again, so one day she summoned up the courage to ask her
husband to allow her to return to her home on a visit, as she said her
folks were mourning for her as lost, having given up hopes of seeing
her alive. He consented to let her go home on a visit, and that she
could take her little boy with her, so they began to make ready for
the journey as it was a long distance, and the country was very rough.
The O-ma-ha (Devil) husband who was immensely rich, dressed his wife
in one of the most beautiful of Indian dresses, and the little boy was
also richly clad, and so they started on their journey to Reck-woy. The
wild man guided and accompanied them until they neared the village of
Wealth-quow, the village from which he had stolen her on the night of
the dance, and here as they came into a small open space over-looking
the village, he parted from his wife and little son, and they crossed
the river and went into her native village. As she entered the village
she was most beautiful to behold, dressed in the most gorgeous Indian
dress, with her little son by her side, and startled friends and
relatives, who had mourned her as dead, greeted her with much surprise
as they had mourned her loss for nearly nine years. Her folks were
over-joyed to find their long lost child restored to them, and with
hearty greetings and a royal welcome, she found herself back in the
village of her birth. With breathless interest they sat listening to
her wonderful tales concerning her life in the solemn wilds, how she
had been carried over mountain and crag, and through the huge forests,
to a strange home in the cave in a cliff of rocks, where one of the
wild men had made her his wife. In this strange cave she had enjoyed
the comforts of a luxuriant home, for her husband was exceedingly rich
and was very kind to her and their child. From her description it
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