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FIFTEENTH. The Kansas, Osage and Pawnee are the kings presented to thee; They are naitive children, you see, all being absolutdy free. This Eden had devils (rattlers) galore, but they had the fee; Their God had not yet forbidden them to eat of the tree. Thes* natives ef Quivira, and *<"■ many yeais their survivora, . Thus enjoyed the game as God had ^^illed the same. Then solicitous for their souls, but more the buffalo holes, The superior tribe did then contrive their homes to divide. CONFESSION is good for the soul; therefwi you, kind readers, are constituted "Father Confessors," to listen to this plaint, Btipry, yarn, "hiimbug," or imagination; for haw is it possible to enter into a long-winded, truthful and authentic account of the various sports in TOgne among the denizens of Quivira when hardly a scratdi of the pen is come-at-able that is authoritative? The only record along this line is the statement of their marksmanship with the bow and arrow, and they bad canoes. So the confession is heralded on the four wings of heaven, that nearly aU of this chapter is a stretch of the imagination, based largely upon the known habits of later tribes as set forth in the great United States Indian work heretofore utilized. But because they left no account of themselves on Baby-