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 had little opportunity proving himself more than persistent in standing about a tepee in the night serenading his love with a flageolet. During the day there were no meetings— the luscious moonlight wasted itself at night: Joseph could only hope his choice stood in the crowd, with heart a-flutter while he performed some feat of daring upon the parade ground, or surpassed some other youth of promise in the hunt, in games, at horse racing, or in javelin or bow and arrow proficiency. -

But even eternal vigilance must sometime relax. Joseph knew this and waited, incessantly keeping the entire family of the lodge awake with his flageolet playing, until he wore their vigil out and forced her parents to relent for want of sleep.

There came the time at last when Joseph met his chosen maiden under the alders along the creek called “Laaps”, the “Place of the Butterflies”. A breath-taking moment of sudden meeting; a hopeful modesty on the part of the girl; the held-in-check enthusiasm of the youth; and then, without warning, those sweet words of love; a proposal and an acceptance. Joseph had found a bride.

19 FRED LOCKLEY

For a third of a century Fred Lockley has been extracting Oregon history from people who have lived it in one way or another in a wide range of categories—“ bull-whackers, muleskinners, pioneers, prospectors, ' 49ers, Indian fighters, trappers, ex-barkeepers, authors, preachers, poets and near poets, and all sorts and conditions of men and women.” These have been his original sources, supplemented by manuscripts, pamphlets, early newspapers, photographs, letters and old books, which, like a modern Bancroft, he has adventurously searched out from all over the country, once crawling under the foundations of the old Umatilla House in pursuit of the records of that famous pioneer hotel.

He is a native of Kansas, where he was born on March 19, 1871. He came to Oregon by mule team at the age of 9. He received his education at Oregon State College and Willamette University. His profession has been journalism. He was field editor of the Pacific