herd with the squaws, until he can prove that he is a brave man by
some daring deed. The Indians wouldn't speak to him for a long
time, so he decided to teach the squaws how to keep house in a
civilized manner, and he began by trying to show them how to make
buckwheat pancakes, so they could furnish something for the
Indians to eat that does not have to be dug out of a tin can,
which they draw from the Indian agent. Pa found a sack of
buckwheat flour and some baking powder, and mixed up some batter,
and while he was fixing a piece of tin roof for a griddle, the
squaws drank the pancake batter raw, and it made them all sick,
and the chief was going to have Pa burned at the stake, when the
Carlisle Indian who had eaten pancakes at college when he was
training with the football team, told the chief to let up on Pa
and he would give them something to eat that was good, so Pa mixed
some more batter and when the buckwheat pancakes began to bake,
and the odor spread around among the Indians, they all gathered
around, and the way they ate pancakes would paralyze you. They got
some axle grease to spread on the pancakes, and fought with each
other to get the pancakes, and they kept Pa baking pancakes all
day and nearly all night, and then the squaws began to feel
better, and Pa had to bake pancakes for them, and when the flour
gave out the chief sent to the agency for more, and for a week pa
did nothing but make pancakes, but finally the whole tribe got
sick, and Pa had to prescribe raw beef for them, and they began to
get better, and then they wanted Pa to go on a coyote hunt, and
kill a kiota, which is a wolf, by jumping off his horse and taking
the wolf by the neck and choking it to death. Pa said he killed a
tom cat that way once, and he could kill any wolf that ever
walked, so they arranged the hunt Before we went on the hunt pa
sent to Cheyenne for two dozen little folding baby trundlers for