CHAPTER X 



LAST OF THE POTTO WATTO MIES 



FIRING 



THE MARSHES TO 



DRIVE THE GAME OUT. 



HOW THE INDIANS ROAST A DEER HEAD. 



THE LAST OF THE 



POTTOWA-TTOMiES 



ON THE KANKAKEE 



The readers remember that in a previous 

 chapter I mentioned that a few of the Potto- 

 wattomie Indians were permitted to remain. 

 Now I will teil you what became of AVingo, the 

 little Indian boy. One of the most wonderful 

 stories of all is a prairie on fire, which is one of 

 the grandest sights in the v/orid. 1 have seen, 

 in the fall of the year in a dry time, the Kanka- 

 kee Prairies on fire, the time of the sear and 

 yellow leaf when all nature is about to put off 

 her garb of green and put on the v/hite-snow. 

 The Indians sometimes would set the grass on 



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