There are those that knew him from 1830, who maintain that his age was a few years less; but I take the estimate of Mr.Kinzie and H.L.Dousman, of Prairie du Chien, who set him down, in 1864, at about the age I have assigned to him.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Corn which has been parboiled, shelled from the cob, and dried in the sun.] [Footnote 2: Literally, _crazy oats_.

It is the French name for the Menomonees.] [Footnote 3: _Le Forgeron_, or Blacksmith, a Menomonee chief.] [Footnote 4: A niece of James Fenimore Cooper.] [Footnote 5: Master--or, to use the emphatic Yankee term, _boss_.] [Footnote 6: Michaud climbed into a plum-tree, to gather plums.

The branch broke.

_Michaud fell_! Where is he?
_He is down on the ground_.
No, he is up in the tree.] [Footnote 7: The supposed Dauphin of France.] [Footnote 8: The site of the town of Nee-nah.] [Footnote 9: The bark of the red willow, scraped fine, which is preferred by the Indians to tobacco.] [Footnote 10: General Cass was then Governor of Michigan, and Superintendent of the Northwestern Indians.] [Footnote 11: In the year 1714.] [Footnote 12: Father! How do you do ?] [Footnote 13: Only look! what inventions! what wonders!] [Footnote 14: Between two of these lakes is now situated the town of Madison--the capital of the State of Wisconsin.] [Footnote 15: I speak, it will be understood, of things as they existed a quarter of a century ago.] [Footnote 16: It was at this spot that the unfortunate St.Vrain lost his life, during the Sauk war, in 1832.] [Footnote 17: Probably at what is now Oswego.

The name of a portion of the wood is since corrupted into _Specie's Grove_.] [Footnote 18: The honey-bee is not known in the perfectly wild countries of North America.