PIONEER HUNTERS OK THE KANKAKEE 

 with leaves or grass to hide suspicion and over 

 the door they hung up the bait, usually a piece 

 of venison, When a hungry wolf, lynx or fox 

 came along they would stop to feed on the bait 

 and they would have to pass over the trap door. 

 When they were about to take hold of the veni- 

 son the game would step upon the door, It 

 would turn and down they went into the pen. In 

 early times when there was plenty of such game 

 along the Kankakee swamps it was not an un- 

 common thing to take three or four wolves out 

 of the pen at one time and sometimes a mixed 

 lot of game is caught, such as wolves, foxes and 

 wild-cats. Many years ago some trappers had 

 a trap of this kind on a little island in the North 

 Marsh and they took out of the pen at one time 

 two wolves, three foxes and a wild-cat. In an 

 early day it was said that a few panthers were 

 caught in this way on the uplands, as the pan- 

 ther did not inhabit the swamps on account of 

 the water, as they were not much for water. 

 But a number were caught in the big woods near 



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