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I have also heard them say to their children when crying: 'Hush! the naked bear will hear you, be upon you, and devour you,'" Where the Falls of Minnehaha, etc.
"The scenery about Fort Snelling is rich in beauty.

The Falls of St.Anthony are familiar to travellers, and to readers of Indian sketches.

Between the fort and these falls are the 'Little Falls,' forty feet in height, on a stream that empties into the Mississippi.
The Indians called them Mine-hah-hah, or 'laughing waters.'" -- MRS.

EASTMAN'S Dacotah, or Legends of the Sioux, Introd., p.

ii.
Sand Hills of the Nagow Wudjoo.
A description of the Grand Sable, or great sand-dunes of Lake Superior, is given in Foster and Whitney's Report on the Geology of the Lake Superior Land District, Part II.p.


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