We were travellin' in a car they call a parlor, though it didn't look no more like our parlor than ours does like a steeple on a wind-mill.

But it wuz dretful nice and comogeous.
We five occupied seats all together, and right next to us, acrost the aisle, wuz two men a-arguin' on the Injun question.

I didn't know 'em, but I see that Thomas J.and Krit wuz some acquainted with 'em; they wuz business men.
When I first begun to hear 'em talk (they talked loud--we couldn't help hearin' 'em), they seemed to be kinder laughin', and one of 'em said: "Yes, they denied the right of suffrage to wimmen and give it to the Injuns, and the next week the Injuns started off on the war-path.
Whether they did it through independence or through triumph nobody knows, but it is known that they went." And I thought to myself, "Mebby they wuz mad to think that the Goverment denied to intelligent Christian wimmen the rights gin to savages." Thinks'es I, "It is enough to make a Injun mad, or anything else." [Illustration: "They denied the right of suffrage to wimmen and give it to the Injuns."] But I didn't speak my mind out loud, and they begun to talk earnest and excited about 'em, and I could see as they went on that they felt jest alike towards the Injuns, and wanted 'em wiped off'en the face of the earth; but they disagreed some as to the ways they wanted 'em wiped.

One of 'em wanted 'em shot right down to once, and exterminated jest as you kill potato-bugs.
The other wanted 'em drove further off and shet up tighter till they died out of themselves; but they wuz both agreed in bein' horrified and disgusted at the Injuns darin' to fight the whites.
And first I knew Krit jest waded right into the talk.

He waded polite, but he waded deep right off the first thing.
And, sez he, "Before they all die I hope they will sharpen up their tommyhawks and march on to Washington, and have a war-dance before the Capitol, and take a few scalps there amongst the law-makers and the Injun bureau." He got kinder lost and excited by his feelin's, Krit did, or he wouldn't have said anything about scalpin' a bureau.