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Title: Call Him Savage

Author: John Pollard

Illustrator: Sanford Kossin

Release Date: March 24, 2010 [EBook #31758]

Language: English

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CALL HIM SAVAGE

BY JOHN POLLARD

Illustrator: Sanford Kossin

_Around the 15th of March each year, folks start saying,
"Give the country back to the Indians!" Well, that's what we
want to talk to you about._

* * * * *

I didn't even hear her come in. What with the Sioux rising against the
white settlement at the fork of the Platte, the attack being set for
dawn, and Chief Spotted Horse's impassioned speech to his braves, I
wouldn't have heard anything under a ninety-seven-decibel war whoop.

Soft lips brushed the back of my neck and she said something.

"That's fine," I said.

"_Sam!_"

I heard _that_, all right. I looked up from the typewriter. "Hey,
that's a _nice_ nightgown!"

"I said I think I'm getting a cold."

"Well--with a nightgown like that...."

"Silly!" Her smile would have corrupted a bishop. "You coming to bed?
It's almost midnight."

"Soon's I finish writing this chapter. Best thing I've ever done."

"More Indians?"

I reached for a cigarette. "Sure, more Indians. What else would one of
the country's leading authorities on the original Americans be writing
about? I hate to keep harping on the same subject, my sweet, but the
dough from my last book bought you that mink stole you keep dangling
in front of your girl friends."

"If you make so much money at it, why are you still a reporter?"

"I _like_ being a reporter."

"What about _me_? Between r