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kee Swamps and turned over to a bull bitch to 

 be mothered and cared for. With their Keen 

 scent of inheritance and the viciousness of their 

 foster mother they were made the most famous 

 hunting dogs that ever hunted in the Kankakee 

 Swamps and those puppies with no pedigree 

 other than that of a /Missouri hound, sold for 

 one hundred and fifty dollars each. Their quali- 

 fications, nerve and size for the hunters of coon 

 and mink in the swamps on the ice in those 

 days made them valuable not only for coon and 

 mink hunting but they were trained for other 

 game deer, wolves and foxes, One of them 

 fell into the hands of a noted deer hunter, Ed 

 McNeel, and when the dog was eleven years 

 old he refused an offer of two hundred dollars, 

 offered by some Michigan deer hunter who 

 wanted the old dog to train some young ones. 

 1 have an old note book made of hunting events 

 of years ago. Its covers are tattered, dirty and 

 faded, and on the outside shows plainly upon 

 its shabby service the ravage of time and evi- 



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