LOOKING 'INDIAN.’

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XII, 17 September 1898, Page 387

LOOKING 'INDIAN.’

Somebody dropped a stick pin in the hall the other day and had hard work to find it. She hunted high and low. and on her hands and knees, and with a candle, but it was no use. The pin was very tiny, its value being due to association rather than to size or brilliancy. The somebody. after a final shake of the rug's, was about to give it up for ever when one of the children chancefl to come along.

‘Why don’t you look “Indian” for it?' he asked. Before the somebody realised what was meant down dropped the youngster on the floor, his head and his whole body lying sidewise and just as close to the derifllevel as possible. In this position his eyes roved rapidly over the floor. ‘I have it! he shouted, and sure enough, right in the middle of the floor, in so plain a place that it had escaped notice, was the missing stick pin. The youngster then explained that ‘looking Indian’ meant putting the head to the ground in order to catch sight of the smallest object Indween one's self and the horizon. ‘They do it on the plains all the time,* he said.

‘That’s why they can always tell who's coming. But it works in houses just as well as on the plains. Why wc

never lose anything in the nursery nowadays: we just ‘look Indian'* and find it right otT.'