ONE VffiASEL SKIN’S iOREH
George T. llasury
"Never worry about the future, Bob, it doesn't pay. Just stop and
think that today was the tomorrow you were worrying about yesterday* Your&
still alive and the e is nothing to kick about is there?" stated Pedro from
his seat on the top step in front of Sara -hittaker's Road House at Wells*
"I aint worrying," replied 3ob Boftin. "I'm just thinking*"
"What's the matter with him, Pedro?" asked "Sandy" Gilbert from his
station on the bottom step*
"Oh, Bob brokehis looking glassyesterday and figures he's going to have
seven years' bad luck," was the reply*
"Broke his looking glass! Well, I’ll be darned* Can you beat that!
exclaimed Sandy.
"booking glass?" queried Tom l»eahy, as he raised up from tinkering
with his car which was parked on the road by the steps. "Say, did you fellows
ever hear about the first looking glass that ever cane in to this country? It's
a good story."
"Shoot it," said Pedro.
"Well," said '1‘on, as he seated himself on the running board of his
machine. "Pete Duncan, one of the Dalton Post Indians, was the one who told
me the story. It seems a medicine man had traded with the white men for a
looking glass. It was the first one th it the Indians had ever seen and this
medicine man, being a pretty foxy fellow, charged the Indians for looking at
themselves. If you had never seen yourself in a glass, you’d be darn curious
to get a look at yourself, wouldn’t you? 'Well, these Indians were all the
same my, so this medicine nan used to sit them in a chair and for one black
fox skin they could stare at themselves in the glassfor fifteen minutes^ for
a red fox skin, five minutes, and so on. Well, Pete was dyihag to get a look
in this glass, but he only had one small weasel skin — didn't have another
hide to his name. Anyway, he went to the medicine nan and gave him the weasel
skin. Ihe medicine nan took the skin, gave a grunt, took Pete inside the
house and sat him in the chair. He then asked Pete if he was ready. Pete
said, "Yes," The medicine man then passedthe looking glass in front of
Pete's eyes so fast that Pete says all he saw ^ras the flash as the looking glass
went by. 'Ihe medicine man then told him to get out, as he'd had his weasel
skin* s worth! "
"Cross fox, you win," said Bob.
"He do, " echoed Pedro.
".Veil, can you beat that," exclaimed Sandy.
---And they couldn* t.
HAINES NOTES
M rs. George Vogel returned from thd States on the Queen last Sunday*
Mr* and Mrs* Howell, of New Jersey, are visiting their daughter, Miss
Laura Howell, at the Mission.
Miss Townsend, and her mother, Mrs. Townsend, and Miss Beauchamp, of
the local pedagogical force, left Jliesday on tne Estebeth, en route to visit
Atlin and points on the Yukon*
Superintendent-elect Jack Aklen, of the Haines public schools, left
recently for the States, where he will take a summer course in the University,
returning fior the opening of school in September*
Mrs* Anna Brown, postmaster ofHaines, is installing new lock bojces
in the post office*