PlONEiiR HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 and pepper it well, then spread a layer of butter 

 on the top. Cover this with strips of bacon and 

 cornmeal. Slip him in a hot oven and when 

 done to a brown take the outfit back of the shanty 

 and throw the fish away and eat the board. I'll 

 say that baked suckers and trimmings you will 

 find more palatable than any hard- wood board or 

 carp. 1 will assure you that, if none of these 

 dishes don't appeal to you especially, just try 

 something else. A\any years ago, but to be ex- 

 act, it was the cold winter of 1843 and the cold- 

 est winter ever known, there was a party of deer 

 hunters camping on the Kidge. The snow was 

 very deep and the weather so cold that it was 

 almost impossible to get ©ut and hunt for game. 

 The ice in the river was so thick that they could 

 not cut a hole through it with an axe so they 

 pulled a lot old logs on the ice and set them on 

 fire to mslt a hole through it. After a night and 

 a part of a day they got a hole through it and all 

 kinds of fish, pickerel, bass, salmon, and even 

 snapping turtles bounded out of the ice and they 



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