TOBACCO LEAVES 



order of Donaldsonville Mohawks, but 

 would lend dignity and impressiveness to 

 the outer portals and scare away any boozy 

 wanderer who might seek to penetrate the 

 inner secrets. It would be easy, they felt 

 assured, to remove the bunch of cigars 

 from the chieftain's right hand and sub- 

 stitute a ballot-box or a copy of the club's 

 charter. 



Nobody dreamed that there would be 

 the slightest difficulty in securing a suit- 

 able Indian in a city the size of New Or- 

 leans, and a commission to that effect was 

 promptly forwarded to a trusted friend 

 who stands high in the counsels of the local 

 Choctaws. 



" Purchase for us immediately," it ran 

 in substance, " one full-grown wooden In- 

 dian of good moral character, and send per 

 earliest freight, accompanied by draft and 

 bill of lading. P. S. Do not send us 

 any cast-iron or crockery Indians. Cut 



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