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sleepy little village as it had possibly not been stirred 

 for many moons. The cheerful fact was made clear to 

 me before leaving that I was as far from Joliet at Ho- 

 bart as I had supposed myself to be at Michigan City. 



In the course of the day, in which twenty-eight 

 miles were again covered, Centralia, Sherryville and 

 Dyer wqvq passed, these towns being on Grand 

 Prairie, across which I rode from morning till night. 

 At four o'clock I reached the boundary between In- 

 diana and Illinois, realizing that at this point six 

 States had added their rich scenes and splendid enter- 

 prises to my memory. 



As I was moving along on the prairie just before 

 dark my ears caught the sound of a peculiar barking 

 and soon a pack of what I supposed to be dogs were 

 following me. I noticed that PauVs manner changed 

 and he appeared disturbed, but attributed this to the 

 barking and the persistent keeping at his heels of the 

 little animals. To a man whom I met later, I ex- 

 plained that I had been followed for some hours by a 

 pack of dogs, when he promptly informed me that 

 they were doubtless prairie wolves. Of course to an 

 Easterner this news gave an added interest to Grand 

 Prairie. 



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Robertson House, 

 Joliet, Illinois, 

 September Eighteenth. 



Had Paul brought out at eight o'clock. As soon 

 as he was saddled at Richton the man who attended to 

 him threw the rein over the neck of the horse, and a 



