Poem 14. Just a Little Fellows Story

It is said that Grampa Fellows’ Grandma was a daughter of the Iroquois Chief of the Mohawk Tribe outside their town. When she was a small child, the government demanded her, cut off her hair, and sent her to a white man’s school to become “civilized”

There, she met and married  Great Grampa Fellows, and they started a family. My grampa was one of their sons.

It is also said that I greatly resemble her, and that is the reason Grampa Fellows loved me so much.

That, and I also looked a lot like Betty Boop, which was a fairly impressive boast for a 1940’s gambling old playboy like he was…

 

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