JOHN WERICH— Born in 1830. The oldest pioneer 

 hunter hving, now in his 90th year. Regan hunting on the 

 Kankakee in 1852. A few months before this book went to 

 press he shot and killed a tiger cat that measured forty inches 

 long and stood seventeen inches high, the first one ever seen 

 in the Kankakee swamps, supposed to have escaped from 

 some menagerie. 



