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Show I Ho;te of Little Spirits "Little Devil s Hill." which Is to be found in Clay county. South Dakota, is a strange looking flat topped hill In the midst of level prairie. It is 30 yards long. CO or 70 yards wide, and about 70 feet high. The top is a smooth level plain. The Indians made this hill a great article of their superstition. super-stition. They called it the Mountain of Little People, or Little Spirits. They believer it was the abode uf little lit-tle devils in human Wm, about 18 inches high, with remarkably large heads, and armed with sharp arrows, with which they were very skilful. They were always op the watch to kill thos who approached their resi-i resi-i dence. The tradition was that many ! had suffered from these little evil spirits. |