The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 12, July 1908 - April, 1909 Page: 300
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
very novel and interesting to the American visitors who often
filled our home.
Mexicans, though a dark race, delight much in white covers for
couches and beds. An Indian visitor would sit down contentedly
on the whitest and daintiest, leaving his "brand"-in cow boy
parlance-unmistakably defined. Requests and orders to move
were alike unheeded by him till it suited his pleasure. Once a
chief, a dirty fellow, of course, took a seat on my mother's white
bed. She asked him to get up; but he only gazed at her with his
characteristic stolid Indian look. Mother feared no man; and,
seizing a stick, she ordered him to rise. I-Is answer was the same
aggravating gleam of the eye. But when the stick came down on
,his scalp lock with its most inspiring emphasis he jumped up with
a thoroughly Indian "wugh! wugh !" exclaiming "White woman
muy brava"; and so it ended.
Once some of my father's Indian relatives1 came to see him, and
there was among them one young man whom he seemed much
delighted. to meet, and whom he loaded with presents.
On another occasion, while breakfasting, I ran out to a call and
found before our door a boy with a rifle on a barebacked horse
and a man also riding bareback, but without a rifle. Both 'were
hatless. Their camp had been sacked in the night, the whole
party it contained except themselves had been murdered, and they
had barely escaped with life.
Three years we resided in San Antonio. During this time, my
father had his children christened by the Catholic priest resident
in the town. My mother's brother was also christened. We were
therefore Catholics, and as a child I accepted the faith most cheer-
fully. Some years later dear Grandma Howell of Missouri took
me in hand and taught me to love the scriptures and study them-
a practise I have observed till the present. She was an Old School
Presbyterian, and an accomplished Virginia lady. But we were
then in San Antonio. As soon as I was old enough I was sent
to a Spanish school; and every Sabbath I marched with the pupils
in double file to the cathedral singing full-voiced some Catholic
hymn. On entering we severally approached the font of holy
water, dipped the tips of the fingers, and made the sign of the"That is, by adoption. See p. 297 above.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 12, July 1908 - April, 1909, periodical, 1909; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101048/m1/338/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.