PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 Hall made the great shot. Two deer came 

 dashing by liall, running in opposite directions, 

 and when they came opposite of each other 

 Hall took aim and fired. The ball passed 

 through the body of the first deer Hilling it in- 

 stantly and struck the other deer under the 

 shoulder between the first and second ribs and 

 lodged near the heart and a few bounds more 

 and it fell dead. A few days later /Ar. Dalson 

 was out hunting in the swamp when he came 

 upon two big bucks fighting. They had locked 

 their horns so tight together that they could not 

 separate themselves, he shot one and knocked 

 the other in the head with his hunting axe. He 

 hung them up and went home and told Hal! 

 that he no longer had the best of him, for he 

 had killed two deer with only one shot. Hall, 

 wouldn't believe it at first but when he could not 

 find any bullet hole in one of the bucks, only 

 where it had been hit on the head with the pole 

 of an axe. Yet he was entitled to claim the 

 champion shot having killed his two, running 



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