DIVIDING THE GAME 



and foxes can run on giary ice so many of them 

 got away, and fully as many deer got away as 

 were killed, by slipping and sliding towards the 

 shore. There were so many that they could not 

 kill them all at once, consequently that gave 

 many a chance to escape. Only one man was 

 hurt in the fight and he would have been killed 

 by a big buck had he not been rescued in time. 

 The buck was killed with a corn knife. The 

 wounded hunter was placed on a litter and car- 

 ried to his cabin on the Kankakee at what was 

 at that time known as Harrison's Landing. 

 After years the place was called Thayers and 

 was near where the Grangers years after had 

 their trapping shanty on Grape Island. We 

 used to camp near their cabin on the river many 

 years after the big hunt on Bogus Island. That 

 deer hunt beat the world. Now I am going to 

 tell you hov/ v/e used to hunt and divide the 

 game. After the hunt is all over the most in- 

 teresting of all is the dividing of the gam.e on the 

 square. Sometimes there is a great deal of 



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