He is a queer-looking chap, with a head as…

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ild when angered that ever lived. He is a queer-looking chap, with a head as large as a man’s, immense ears, almost like an animal’s, a perfect counterpart of old Geroni- mo’s, while his body and limbs are spare, but muscled like steel. About two years ago, when he was only four years of age, a little girl of the family which had adopted him teased him by calling him names. He seized a butcher knife and frightfully wounded her, so that for a long time it was doubtful if she would live. She recovered, but her face is greatly disfigured by the knife wounds which the little wretch made. He was whipped unmercifully for this, but bore the pun- ishment without a murmur. About six months ago he got hold of some giant powder and blew up a stable in which were several valuable horses, and after the explosion was seen laughing, like the little fiend he is, at the sufferings of the poor brutes. He chews tobacco like a man, smokes cigar- ettes like a Kearney dude and swears like a pirate. He is a perfect terror to the children of his own age, and it will be a miracle if he doesn’t become a murderer before he is a dozen years old.