SITTING DOWN TO WALK.
The "Western Indians., although not fond of work, do not approve of indolent white men. The "heap good white man/ 3 in their estimation, is the white man who works hard: and to sit down and watch him as he toils seems to afford them neverfailing pleasure. Some young " warriors " of the Blackfoot tribe sat in the shade one day watching 1 a group of labourers who were constructing a grade for a branch railway in Montana, United States. They were commenting upon the workmen and their work, when a bicyclist, the first they had ever seen, came riding along the newly-completed grade. He had left the train at the last station, and was going to the fort a little farther on. The Indians watched the wheelman without a word until he passed beyond a knoll that hid him from view — then they expressed their sentiments concerning him. " No good white man," one remarked. " No," answered another with great scorn, " heap lazy white man — sits down to walk ! "
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5698, 17 October 1896, Page 4
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