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 never pass from his recollections. Every old- 

 time hunter has a string of such memories to 

 think back upo^n. What were the most wonder- 

 ful happenings of all. it has been said, that the 

 hunters love best the trapping side of hunting. 

 While this might be true from the financial side 

 yet ask any old timer to tell of five great events 

 of happenings of things he saw and four of them 

 will be tales of hunting with the gun. Think it 

 over and see if it isn't strictly true. . The mem- 

 ory of hunting glories lingers longer and the 

 thoughts of many great shots made will come 

 sooner to the recollection than any achieve- 

 ment made with the rod or traps. The hunters 

 who were there (1 v/asn't) have always claimed 

 that the greatest of all rifle shots ever made in 

 the Kankakee Swamps was made on Long 

 fridge about fifty years ago by a hunter named 

 Hall who is now dead. Mall was a native o^ 

 Jasper County and a deer hunter by trade. He 

 and Harrison Dalson hunted deer together a 

 great deal and were together on the day that 



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