Gypsy Heart
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From Goodspeeds.....1889 The Indians continued to visit the country in the fall and winter, long after the settlements of the pale-faces had rendered it too crowded to be congenial to their taste. It is believed by the more credulous old settlers that they still return covertly. There is a tradition that they have an enormous treasure of silver hidden away under the ground somewhere, to which they annually return to replenish their purses. It is told that Logan, once looking upon the operations of the white men as they cleared the forest and plowed the soil, destroying the hunting grounds of the once happy savage, exclaimed with bitterness and triumph: "Ah! if white man knew what red man known, he wouldn't plow this ground with iron plows." The locality of the buried treasure has even been described by Indians, and some well-meaning citizens are even now attempting to find it. Their faith is strengthened by the fact that there are indications of silver ore in the rocks
