The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 01, 1904, Image 17

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    THE BATTALION.
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had scalped me; so that is why I am wearing the wig I have
on.
The little adventure was the cause of a marriage between
that girl and me. She has been dead some years now, and
now that she is gone, I somehow don’t think of her as my
wife, but as the little girl that I rescued from the Indians.
R.ED.
R. W.
Of course Red was not his real name; it is only a nick
name applied to him on account of his bristly, fire-colored
hair and his sunburned complexion of the same color. His
real name was Robert Milton Evans.
Red’s father was one of a small band of fishermen who
had built their little town on the north extremity of Lavaca
Bay. However, he had not known his father, for he died
when the boy was only one year old. Red’s mother died a
few monihs later, so he was taken into his uncle’s family, in
which there were already twelve children. His aunt pro
tested violently against taking him in, for like most fisher
men’s wives, she was very superstitious. When her husband
brought the child home she said, “Something will surely
happen, either to the boy or to you, my husband, for thirteen
is an unlucky number.” (They now had that many children
in the family).