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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 132

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 132 — ; there s a smell in theair like roasted acorns. No; only an Indian wigwam, saidDaddy Simon; look down there,—you can seetheir smoke going up. It s a family of Pinto In-dians ; they build no houses, but sleep in hammockswith some big tree for their roof. Lets go and see them, I said; may bethey… … MEXICAN FISHER-BOYS. a good Johnny; will you gimme a copper now ? Certainly, laughed Tommy; here is one;where s your father? Behind that tree, said the boy; he s skin-ning a cully for supper. The cully, or culebra, was a big fat snake, dang-ling from the projecting bough of a pine-tree. TheIndian…

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