PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAICEE 

 stuck out of a musk-rat house, all right except 

 a little scorched about the head. B^ut he was 

 glad to get off with that. He crawled out of the 

 old musk-rat house and started to look for 

 Aingo as we had great fear for him, fearing that 

 he had been roasted alive. We found the 

 roasted deer and knocked at the door and to 

 our great delight /Aingo called out, 'Sit down 

 you are at the right door** And we opened the 

 deer and behold, he was safe and sound, al- 

 though he said it was red-hot for him for a short 

 time. The deer was roasted to a nice brown on 

 the outside and we sat down and made a square 

 meal off of him. Then we cut it up and carried 

 it home and we had enough to eat for sometime 

 without cooking." The finest bill of fare that I 

 ever saw was to pass over the burnt district just 

 after a big fire had passed and you could find 

 all kinds of game; coon, rabbits, and sometimes 

 prairie chickens and ducks, nicely roasted and 

 many a meal have I made of them when out 

 hunting and hungry. 1 will tell y@u how the In- 



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