398 ILLINOIS STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



An early story of old Lake Abram is told of a man 

 who rode out to the lake and, after hitching his horse 

 to a tree, commenced to converse with a friend, who af- 

 ter a while asked him how he had come out. He replied : 

 "On horseback". "Where is your horse?" said his 

 friend. On looking around he said he had tied him to 

 yonder tree. The horse had disappeared beneath the sur- 

 face of the earth. 



