Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-07
Through Richland and Vernon

recollected the verse. | told him that 1t
had entirely slipped my memory, but
would try and recall it. He said he hoped
I could, for his nose had bled great deal
and he would like to have it stopped. AZ
ter thinking for some time | asked him if
he would recognize the verse if I would
repeat it, and he said he thought he would.
pitied the nose, and began revolving in
my mind ali the verses knew in the BIZ
BILE, but | could only think of one that had
nose in it. Solomon somewhere in his
Proverbs said: "Surely the churning of
milk bringeth forth butter, and the wiring.
ing Of the nose bringeth forth blood :" but
the man thought this was not the one. So
! tried again as follows:
The dew was falling FAST the stars began to blink
That's not it, says the man.
81 wish was reindeer"
"No," says he.
"Let us have peace"
"Not right"
''From every mountain side rode the six hundred"
Said he had heard that before, but did
not think it was the right one.
"Come back Come back he cried with grief"
"That sounds more like it," he said.
"All around the chimney top pop goes the shoe fly"
That's it, that's it, he exclaimed, ard
sprang to his feet, and sure enough the
blood stopped He thanked me thou
sand times, while his eyes rolled down
his cheeks and he wiped them. away with
corn husk. | drove on then pretty fast
for fear he would ask me where to find the
verse, and / had really forgotten which
volume of Beadle it was in.
About the middle of the afternoon on
this day, (Sept. 13th,) I reached the top
of the bluff at the source of Mill Creek
The timber on this bluff is SO extremely
tall that the grey squirrels are obliged to
burrow in the groundl They never at
tempt to climb a tree unless closely pur-
sued, and then two of them run up the
same tree until they get SO high as to be
beyond the range Of the rife, and as there
are no limbs on the tree in that short dis
distance for them to rest upon, they place
themselves on opposite sides Of the tree
and reaching around the body of it lock
their paws together and thus support each
other until the danger is over.
This bluff at the source of Mill Greek is
the only thing that prevents this extraor-
binary stream from being longer. 1t con-
tinues up this bluff as far as is consistent
with gravity, and then stops to give an
other creek chance to begin, which is
called Camp Creek. This is called Camp
Greek on account of the many sugar camps
and camp meetings that were formerly in
the vicinity, until civilization came in and
drove them all out This Greek is said
to produce the finest blooded mosquitoes
in the State, and the finest favored bull
frogs inhabit the Camp Greek swamps,
and the turtles have no shells on their
backs. The sun never shines on the side
of the bluff on the south side of the creek,
and the extreme heat during the past
summer came very near taking all the
snow off it, and the icicles dissolved away
until some of them were not more than Is
feet long and Ia inches in diameter The
Camp Creek valley is very productive of
stone quarries, and this is the reason why
the turtles have no shells on, they ground
them off crawling among the rocks. l
learned that Mons Anderson, wealthy
merchant of La Crosse, had bought a large
stone quarry in that vicinity and was go
ing to move it to La Crosse, when Con-
gress makes that city Port of Entry.
Camp creek continues Cd down the val
ley as far as any man in his right mind
would want to follow it, and bit then emp
ties into the Kickapoo river. The word
"Kickapoo' is an Indian name and signi-
fies Ayanished hopes" II is said mot in
Smiths History of Wisconsin, that when
the Indians were making their escape
from Illinois in the time of the Black
Hawk war, when one tribe of them came
to the Kickapoo river, they became dis
! -ad and began committing suicide
nes. s. ~. IN other, because they
.honoh, thew had come to the end of the
vorld as IA, as it was finished, ana 'ney
never made any effort to get further anu
it was several years after this before much
was done in making the world beyond
Kickapoo, and it is NOT quite hnlsneo yet
drove down the east bank of the river
half a mile and found bridge on when
crossed, and found myself in pretty VII
LACE called Viola. Violais also an INDIAN
name and was named after beautiful
Indian g,r who was but an infant wnen
the other Indians killed themselves, ana
the child not being able to kill itself ana
there being no one left to kill It, the poor
thing was compelled to live on the banks
Of the Kickapoo. 1t lived until II naa
grown to maturity. and learning the ie.
gend Of its people, aud why they al killed