Buffalo Bill showed us a young Indian woman who had had a baby a few
days ago.
"It was baptized this morning," he added. "What do you think it was
called?"
"Is it a boy or a girl?" asked the Duke, looking at the brown, wizened
face of the little thing, which was swaddled in an old shawl.
"A girl," answered the young mother, in English.
"Then I suppose you called it Roma," I said.
"No," said Buffalo Bill. "It is the custom among the Indians to give to
the baby the name of the first thing the mother sees after its birth."
"Then they must have named it Tent," I said.
Buffalo Bill laughed. "No, you must guess again. It was called Saint
Peter's."
"Poor little girl!" said the kind-hearted Duke, and put a gold piece in
the ready and delighted hand of the mother.