  Indian boys have very queer pets; they capture bear cubs, puma or mountain lion kittens, and various other young animals of the forest and tame them. The boys like to play with these strange pets, as much as little white boys love to play with puppies or kittens. SOME INDIAN BOYS ENJOY TEASING THEIR PETS. SOME INDIAN BOYS ENJOY TEASING THEIR PETS. Some Indian boys, just like the white boys, enjoy teasing their pets, which is very wrong as it makes the animals very angry, and often the boys are punished beyond their expectation for their naughtiness. bright-eyes was a little pawnee boy, who had two pretty little puma kittens, of which he was very proud, and when he did not tease or make them angry they would let him fondle and caress them just as you would a kitten. One day bright-eyes was sitting on a blanket under a tree playing with his kittens, when two of his friends came along. He asked them to stop and they did, because bright-eyes seemed to be having such a good time with his pets. The other boys did not play as gently as bright-eyes had done, and began teasing the kittens. They became very angry and wild. They scratched at the boys and tried to bite them, and if bright-eyes had been alone he would have fared very badly because he could not have beaten his wild pets off, but the other boys were older and they succeeded in quieting them enough to lead them away and tie them up. The kittens never trusted bright-eyes again as they did before, and the little fellow felt very sad. His father did not trust him with his pets either, and after that always kept the kittens tied even though bright-eyes promised not to make them angry any more. |
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