PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKLEE 

 fire to drive the game out. If there is any wind 

 going It sweeps like a mighty hurricane and car- 

 ries everything before it. Sometimes you can 

 burn the grass around you and escape before 

 the raging billows of fire reach you. "One time 

 many years ago," says an old hunter, "Aubbee- 

 naubbee and /^ingo, an Indian boy, and myself, 

 were out hunting in the tali grass and weeds on 

 the marshes about two miles from ihe river. We 

 had killed a deer and had just cut it open and 

 taken out its entrails and were preparing to skin 

 it and cut it up so that we could carry it home, 

 when we heard a roaring and crackling noise 

 west of us like the coming of a mighty storm. 

 Aubbeenaubbee, with terror despicted on his 

 face, said that the prairie was on fire and that 

 we must get out. As the wind was blowing 

 hard from that direction we knew that it would 

 soon be upon us and we knew that there was no 

 salvation for Aingo in the tall grass as he was 

 small. In the twinkling of an eye we opened 

 out the deer and shoved /Aingo in and then 



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