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Plop No. 1 is a Garden of Eden spoof adapted from Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. Eve chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...
...entire reservation was deeply grieved at the untimely demise of the famous and beloved Chief Short-kake. His son, now elevated to the rank of chief though only a young brave, was responsible for arranging the ceremonial interment of his noble father. He entered his mother's wigwam to console her. The tepee was racked with her sobs. Putting a comforting hand on her shoulder, the young Indian assured her, "Don't worry mom, I'll bury dad." "No!" replied the old woman staunchly through her tears...
Swagger & Treachery. From the turmoil rose truly remarkable men, who swagger through Van Every's pages. Joseph Brant was a sophisticated Mohawk chieftain, who was born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...
...eagerly studied Zen, gave reading lists on the subject to his dates. He brought an astonishing collection of girls to the Village, bagged with unobtrusive efficiency at a drugstore in Manhattan's chaste Barbizon Hotel for Women. Friends could almost see him storing up dialogue. The Barrymore of Camp Wigwam fended off two curious Barbizonians with elaborate legpulls; one girl returned to the real world convinced that he was a goalie for the Montreal Canadiens...
...Quiz Kid. His grades at public schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side were mostly Bs, but arithmetic baffled him. His IQ test score was merely average at 104, and his deportment was sometimes poor. The tall, skinny boy had a better time of it at Camp Wigwam in Harrison, Me., where, at eleven, he played a fair game of tennis, made friends readily, and was voted "the most popular actor...