Everyone was afraid of the Indian from Indiana because he was drunk and from Indiana.  We were afraid he would embarrass us in front of everyone.  We were afraid he would ruin our evening.  None of us were sure where Indiana was and so we didn’t know how the Indians from there behaved.  Some of us had heard of Indiana and one of us said out loud that it might be somewhere in the middle of the country.  Then another one of us said they do a lot of farming there and they play basketball and the country is flat as a sheet of paper.  We didn’t know if all Indians from Indiana were drunks like this one but one of us said he didn’t think so.  He said they wouldn’t be good at basketball and wouldn’t be able to farm if they all were drunks like this Indian here.

New York Tyrant Vol. I No. II