Word: rosebud
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing at all. In his side was a small slit where you were supposed to put pennies, but his little mistress never had a centavo to drop into the hole; so his savings-bank stomach remained permanently empty." Ambassador Dwight...
...tied to a lodge in an enemy's camp, etc." Aleek-chea-ahoosh, as any student of Crow would know by his name (Plenty-coups-Many Achievements) counted many a coup. He and his braves served with General Crook against the Sioux (1886); in the fight on the Rosebud, Aleek-chea-ahoosh had two horses shot under him. Farsighted, the Crows sided with the whites against the hostile Indians...