William Wallace Cook

“ Peter was a Maricopa—only an Indian, that’s all. He had no sense whatever. He’d allow his squaw to work two weeks weaving a basket which he would finally sell for four bits. Peter, on the other hand, would make a bow and brace of arrows in an hour and sell them for a round dollar; but he turned his hand to no other labor, and rarely to this. The Great Spirit, in His inscrutable wisdom, had created squaws and palefaces for the purposes of toil. In this dispensation He had overlooked the red man. ”

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