"
"Naw, I ain't going to be name' no cow, neither," retorted the
little Indian, "you all time trying to 'suade somebody to be
name' `Setting Cow'."
"He can't be name' a cow,"--Billy now entered into the discussion
--"'cause he ain't no girl. Why don' you be name' 'Settin'
Steer'?
Is `steer' genteel, Lina?" he anxiously inquired.
"Yes, he can be named `Sitting Steer'," she granted. Jimmy
agreeing to the compromise, peace was once more restored.
"Frances and Lina got to be the squashes," he began.
"It isn't `squashes,' it is `squaws,"' corrected Lina.
"Yes, 'tis squashes too," persisted Jimmy, "'cause it's in the
Bible and Miss Cecilia 'splained it to me and she's 'bout the
high-steppingest 'splainer they is. Me and Billy is the chiefs,"
he shouted, capering around, "and you and Frances is the squashes
and got to have papooses strop' to your back."
"Bennie Dick can be a papoose," suggested Billy.
"I'm not going to be a Injun squash if I got to have a nigger
papoose strapped to my back!" cried an indignant Frances.
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