PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANK AKliE 

 a long time afterwards. This was known as the 

 "hollow tree sale." Just before or about the 

 time of the first freeze Sawyer left the ridge and 

 a paper informing the settlers that all kinds of 

 things happen in the Kankakee Swamps, he 

 took the map of the Kankakee valley and de- 

 parted. A few days later the settlers came and 

 had a bee tree cutting. They cut several trees 

 and did not find any hon-ey nor bees but found a 

 piece of honey-comb on a string inside the tree. 

 This led them to believe that they had been 

 tricked. They went to their homes much wiser. 

 but with no honey. What they said of their ex- 

 perience was never known. A few days after 

 this an old bee hunter asked one of them how 

 much honey they got. He drew a long hunting 

 knife and threatened the inquirer. The other 

 settlers were questioned not at all. It was one 

 of th? shrewdest tricks ever pulled off in the his- 

 tory of the Kankakee Valley, His fame as a 

 bee hunter went abroad all over Northern In- 

 diana and he was thence after known as Honey 



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