Essay Of An Indian Boy

There is nothdng more original than the early compositkm of au Indian boy. The following example is still preserved as an instan ce in vvhich its savage author epitomized in unxcseious parable and wdth excellent huinor the relations of the red man and his white brother, says the New York Mail and Express. It is entitled : "Story of Good Bird and Bad Cat." The essay folUnvs: "One day, bright day, a little bird happy and stood on a log and sang all day long. That bird doesn't know anything about cat. She thiaks nobody is near to her. But behind the near log old sly cat is watching. She wast 1o eat for supper, and she thinks about stealing all the time. The old cat came very slowly, and by and by she go afte.r the little bird, but she does not see him and sang loudi again. She sang loud like this: 'I am always try to do what is right; wem I ever die I go to Heaven.' That bird said these all words, and I shall not forget the little bird what it said, and these all words it said and af ter two or three minutes go died ; the cat jumped and catch and ki.11, eat a!l up except little things f rom bird, wings, legis or skin, and that bird is glad die because sbe is very good bird. The little bird has last time sang and very happy was the little bird after that. I think the old cat have good dinner and happy just the same as the biird was at first time."