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And presently the two bonny heads were bent over the big sheets of a
dingy, grimy copy of a Philadelphia daily, and there, on an inner page,
heavily marked, appeared a strange item, and this Quaker City journal
had been picked up in an Ogalalla camp. The item read as follows:
AN UNTAMED SIOUX
The authorities of the Carlisle School and the police of Harrisburg
are hunting high and low for a young Indian known to the records of
the Academy as Ralph Moreau, but borne on the payrolls of Buffalo
Bill's Wild West aggregation as Eagle Wing--a youth who is credited
with having given the renowned scout-showman more trouble than all
his braves, bronchos and "busters" thereof combined. Being of
superb physique and a daring horseman, Moreau had been forgiven
many a peccadillo, and had followed the fortunes of the show two
consecutive summers until Cody finally had to get rid of him as an
intolerable nuisance.
It seems that when a lad of eighteen, "Eagle Wing" had been sent to
Carlisle, where he ran the gamut of scrapes of every conceivable
kind. He spoke English picked up about the agencies; had
influential friends and, in some clandestine way, received
occasional supplies of money that enabled him to take French leave
when he felt like it.
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