CHAPTER 1
AN INDIAN BOY RULER
This story, dear reader—in you I’ll confide—
Contains a most terrible plot!
Of this I inform you, and you can decide
Just whether to read it or not.
It’s a tale of a wild and wondrous land;
An account of a man-cub bold,
Whose life is sought by a desperate band—
So here is the tale as it’s told!
THERE were several stories, each supposed to be a true account, of how Cho-gay, the lone Indian boy, came to live among the Black Hills of Timbertangle, a wild, secluded country, where no other man-animal ever had lived.