PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 Big Log, Indiana, has friends who have deter- 

 mined that he is a natural born hunter (Ken- 

 tucky produces a large crop of such). Sawyer 

 was long armed and amiable. From many 

 years of practice in hunting and shooting wild 

 fowls, deer and wild hogs and other ^ame which 

 inhabitated the Kankakee region had a fairly 

 correct notion of his own about hunting, A\.any 

 of the sportsmen from the city would employ 

 him and turn over their camp to him and at 

 night he would teach them local geography of 

 the Kankakee region. In a few years he be- 

 came known to almost all the sportsmen in the 

 nearby cities', The business of a guide in those 

 days was to push a boat through the swamps, 

 bayous and sand marshes with one, and some- 

 times two, hunters in it. At times there was 

 much hard work to perform, especially in the 

 fall hunt when the water was low. In a year or 

 two he grew tired of this business and his 

 thoughts seemed to consist as far as miight be 

 to avoid work. And here he invented his prac- 



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