Indian Summer.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

Since we are having a nice Indian Summer day here in Dayton....

I thought you all might like this cartoon that used to appear annually in Chicgo Tribune...since 1907....Injun Summer




""Yep, sonny this is sure enough Injun summer. Don't know what that is, I reckon, do you? Well, that's when all the homesick Injuns come back to play; You know, a long time ago, long afore yer granddaddy was born even, there used to be heaps of Injuns around here—thousands—millions, I reckon, far as that's concerned. Reg'lar sure 'nough Injuns—none o' yer cigar store Injuns, not much. They wuz all around here—right here where you're standin'.

     Don't be skeered—hain't none around here now, leastways no live ones. They been gone this many a year.

     They all went away and died, so they ain't no more left.

     But every year, 'long about now, they all come back, leastways their sperrits do. They're here now. You can see 'em off across the fields. Look real hard. See that kind o' hazy misty look out yonder? Well, them's Injuns—Injun sperrits marchin' along an' dancin' in the sunlight. That's what makes that kind o' haze that's everywhere—it's jest the sperrits of the Injuns all come back. They're all around us now...."
...the tale continues on.....
http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Chicago/InjunSummer/index.htm

[ewagner]

1. Very nice

I miss the old traditions of story-telling.

I think we're missing out on something.