THE INDIAN’S EYE TRAINING
n Indian left his lodge for several days; when he came back, the dried deer meat which he had left hanging to a tree near his wigwam was gone. He did not go around asking questions of his neighbors, but just used his eyes instead of his tongue for the first hour, and his eyes told him many things.
Then he went to a wigwam near by and asked: “Did you see a little, old, white man with a short gun? Did you see him in the last two days? Did he have a small dog with a short tail?”
The neighbor Indian said: “Yes, I saw him. He and his dog were on the trail going south.”
The Indian took the same trail and in a few days returned with the dog and the deer meat.
Some white men had heard the questions of the Indian before he started out, and after he came back they went to him and said: “We want to know who took your meat. How did you know it was a white man?” [[27]]
“White man turns toe out; Indian put foot so, one behind the other, walk straight.”
“How did you know that he was little and that he was old?”