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"'Quickly we loaded our meager
belongings on the back of one of the strange beasts, waited till the time
seemed right, and started off down one of the remote side passages on the edge
of Kenyon.
“'We must have walked for a very long while,
when we decided to take a little rest. We must have been more fatigued than I
thought, for we both fell into a sound sleep and didn't awaken until quite some
time later. When we did, we found our pack animal was gone. What we neglected
to remember was that these strange repulsive animals could communicate with
their masters. During the night (I should say our long sleep) the animal we had
brought with us went back to the underground city of
“'Hurriedly we gathered together our
belongings and set forth once again, but all was in vain for we were soon
overtaken and the penalty for our crime was death. But this was not all they
planned to do with us. They have a way of preserving our dead bodies, and mine
will walk by night and poor Teen's will walk by day, to keep away the curious
outsiders who might find their way into the passage that leads to Kenyon.
"'I beg of you, do not try!'...
"As I finished reading the old papers I
seemed to awaken out of a dream. Hurriedly I buried them where I had found
them, grabbed up my pack and left the mound. For I had no wish to see more, and
it was time for poor Teen's body to take it's vigil
walk by day.”
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--- Page 230 of Albert S. Gatschet's book, "A MIGRATION LEGEND OF THE
CREEK INDIANS", contains the following interesting story:
"In 1781, on the 1st of February;
Milfort, great
