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been placed six years before. In- 

 stinctively she went, with unseeing 

 eyes, and flung herself at full length 

 on the bunch grass beneath it. Her 

 mind was in a whirl. Wild rebellion 

 filled her thoughts. The ways of 

 the Whitemen were past bearing- 

 how she hated them! They 

 had snatched her away from the 

 happy careless life of her people 

 when she was a roly poly babe of 

 five. For ten years they had made 

 her wake, sleep and eat at their 

 bidding, had coaxed and coerced 

 her to learn their manners, their 

 customs, their ideas, until civilisa- 

 tion hung upon her like a badly 

 fitting garment that hid her good 

 points and showed her bad ones. 

 And now, so pleased are they with 

 their work, they are going to send her 

 to Carlisle, the Whiteman's college for 

 Indians, and for three more years 

 there would be no escape unless 

 she married. Why should they 

 think their ways, their religion, so 

 much better than those of her people ? 

 "They have taught me," she thought 

 proudly, "to think in their language, 

 but they cannot teach me to think 



