The Shawanoes have made captive a little girl over whose head only the moons of a pappoose have passed.
The girl pappooseran about the cabin, brown and bare, but for the bead jacket Singing Stream had made for her in the pride of her maternity.
They went chattering and giggling to the tree where the pappoose had been left.
She had found the board not far off, but no pappoose strapped to it, only something that told the story of what had happened.
She had a pappoose on her back strapped on a board; another squaw travelled with her, carrying an empty jug.
Almost within sight of Gorman's grocery, Red-Sky took off her pappoose and hung it on a tree.
No less than twelve pages did sixteen-year-old Pappoose take to tell it, and when a girl finds time to write a twelve-page letter from the Point she has more to tell than she can possibly contain.
Old John Folsom lay with bandaged head and blinded eyes in a darkened room, assiduously nursed by Pappoose and Jessie, who in turn were devotedly attended by Mrs. Fletcher.
That summer, too, Jessie spent at home, Pappoose with her most of the time, and one year more would finish them at the reliable old Ohio school.
Old Pecksniff" had an eye for pretty girls, a trait by no means rare in soldiers old or young, and prettier girls than Pappoose and Jessie he had never met.
The girls had gone aloft only a moment before, but, dreading news of further evil, Pappoose came fluttering down.
He even sought an interview with Pappoose and asked her to describe the rakish traveler who had so unfavorably impressed her.
But the pappoose was crowing convivially over a bone.
The young squaw, brilliant in her scarlet dress and silver tassels, the pappoose piously quiet in his perpendicular cradle on her back, slipped with gingerly caution to the verge of the precipice and looked down.
But the pappoose in its primitive cradle on the wall babbled out its simple pleasure, and now and again the tearful little mother must needs lift smiling eyes.
There was a general outcry by the ladies for the wife of the Little-wolf to descend from the platform with her little pappoose slung on her back in its splendid cradle, ornamented with porcupine's quills and ermine skins.
It was her business to carry wood, build lodges, saddle his horse, and lash the pappoose in the basket, and do all other drudgery.
The Alsatian soldier carried the baby, who lay securely in the pappoose cradle.
The tall Alsatian handed the pappoose cradle to Mrs. O'Connell.
We finally bethought ourselves of the pappoose basket, which we had brought along in the ambulance, having at the last moment no other place to put it.
You were a small boy when you found the pappoose on the prairie," rejoined his father.
No further light was ever thrown upon Willie's adventure in finding a pappoose alone on the prairie.
Their memories were excited to fresh activity, and the sayings and doings of Willie and the pappoose were recounted for the thousandth time.
But this, of course, was because the pappoose happened to be where it was when the bullet passed along.
A pappoose had been killed which was strapped to its mother's back.
Now look for the Pappoose on the Squaw's back, as in Tale 50.
TALE 50 The Pappoose on the Squaw's Back Now that you know how the Bears and the Big Dipper came, you should know the Indian story of the Old Squaw.
Lone Bear has a kind heart; it is like that of the squaw that presses her pappoose to her heart.
Their presence in noways detracted from his Indian comfort, for the puppy and the pappoose are the Cree's delight by his wigwam fire.
It is Mathurin will put the pappoose in its cradle.
Her pappoose in its wooden cradle was strapped to her back; but she had seen or heard them, for she paused in her occupation and looked up wondering.
The hunters set him up against the wall, like the pappoose in the wigwam of the Blackfoot chief, whilst they opened the window.
She started suddenly to find standing behind her a silent Indian squaw, with a pappoose strapped to her back.
How many of these pappoosecoats will you trade for this beaver?
Pulling at the English shag, she drew from the bottom of a pile a queer little garment labeled "Pappoose coat.
Has the great captain seen a pappoose about his wigwam?
Me pappoose lost," said one of the squaws brokenly.
The Indians call these two the "Old Squaw and the Pappoose on Her Back.
So also on the plains, the old folks would ask the children at night, "Can you see the pappoose on the old squaw's back?
When the pappoose is put into their arms, do they get the paint-stones, and paint it red?
An old warrior who has seen so many enemies, and who has so big a heart, ought not to be knocked in the head like a pappoose or a squaw.
No l'arn all at once, like pale-face pappoose in school.
Maybe he was looking down into the depths of the basket which held the little white pappoose back there in his home.
Every dead gopher An-ina told him meant more food for the pappoose on the Reserve.
And it was the child's desire that the pappoose on the Reserve should eat to repletion.
The white man had a small white pappoose tied on to his back.
He knew his boss was thinking of his own white squaw and the pretty blue eyes of the pappoose which made the father forget every trouble and concern when he gazed down into them.
It was good to look at the little pappoose when there was trouble at the back of a father's eyes.
With his eyes on Doby's face, he slipped a ready hand about the pappoose and lifted the bottle out.
As she ran she slipped the bottle into the cloth wrappings which held the pappoose on her back.
Some idea of ultimate justice stirred in Doby's mind, for he shook his head at a fat pappoose as he reflected: "We have taken their hunting-ground without their leave.
He go into a room; see a little pappoose about a foot long.
The other squaws come crowding after her, each eager to grasp the general's hand, and then to insert therein the tiny fist of the pappoose hanging in stolid wonderment on her back.
A tiny pappoose hung on the back of one of them, and gazed over her shoulder with solemn, speculative eyes at the long files of soldiers on their tall horses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pappoose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
