Identifier: lostmaramechearl00lcstew (find matches)
Title: Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stewart, John F(letcher), 1841- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fox Indians -- History Kendall County (Ill.) -- Antiquities Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago, London (etc.) F. H. Revell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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bruisedfingers. The crimson leaves of the maples made the storyof those who chased the bear an appropriate one. Three Foxes went hunting, a long time ago.They had a little dog with them. It was the timeof the first snowfall. By and by they struck thetrail of a bear. The trail went up a hill. They fol-lowed the trail, the little dog leading. As theywent along they saw the trail leading up to a sumacthicket. At first the tops of the sumac were wavingto and fro, and then they became still. Presentlythe bear stuck his head out and saw the hunterscoming. At that he withdrew. The hunter in the AND EARLIEST CHICAGO 63 lead ran around to the other side to head him off.*Then another hunter ran around to the north, andthe other to the south. Every time the bear ranout there was a hunter there to head him off anddrive him back. This kept the hunters runninground and round the thicket. By and by theywounded the bear with an arrow, and away he ran,the hunters after him. They flung away their bows
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and arrows and, with the arrow in his wound, awaythe bear ran, the hunters after him. They pulledout their knives to grapple with him and slay him.They were a long time in dispatching the bear. Byand by one of the men, the one in the rear, stoppedand looked all around him, and saw that he was in *Evidently the bear was pulling the tops of the bushes downto eat the bobs. but to stop to explain to the listeners, whoare supposed to know things so common, would interrupt theflow of the story, and to interrupt to the extent of asking aquestion is not allowed. 64 LOST MARAMECH a strange place. On looking he saw, way downthere below, the earth all green, the little lodgesand little people, and rivers and their windings.Then he called to the man ahead: Ma-ta-pye, holdon! we are going into the sky; but Ma-ta-pye paidno attention, neither did Wa-pa-na-shi-wa, who waspressing the bear hard. So finding that his com-panions paid no heed, he continued the chase, andall followed the bear all winter,

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