PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 BB and swan shot it could not be beat and for 

 buck shot it was a daisy. It would chamber 

 three number one buck shot and nine made a 

 load. Firing two shots into a bunch oi ante- 

 lope at eighty or a hundred yards certainly made 

 the hair fly. Returning home the following year 

 "85" I cleaned up the old gun and have not 

 loaded it since. That has been more than a 

 third of a century ago. Father had promised to 

 take me duck hunting with him in the swamps 

 just as soon as I could shoot "flying." Many a 

 hunting trip on the Kankakee River he has 

 shoved me and I have witnessed many remark- 

 able shots as well as many poor ones. Father 

 is a man who made but little show of his emo- 

 tions but I could see a change in his eye when- 

 ever I made a good shot, and I knew he was as 

 well pleased as I was. I heard Bill Adams 

 whisper to Jerome Rathborn one time when 

 they were stopping at our place on a duck hunt: 

 "That boy of John's can shoot like the very de- 

 vil and if he keeps on improving by the time he 



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