Aldo* 
      I was taught to fish, hunt and trap by my grandfather 
(David Allen Dryer). His stomping ground was the Kankakee 
and the Kankakee marsh from 1845 to 1905. he killed deer 
and turkeys there until after the Civil War. His cronies were 
his brother Wheeler and Henri de Moss of Momence, Illinois. 
 
      Grandpa Dryer (1818 - 1908) managed to teach me to 
knit nets before I was ten years old, but he gave up teaching 
me to trap Indiana foxes because I wasn't as smart as they 
were. He witnessed the mass migration of the gray squirrels 
about 1828. With other boys he waded into the Ohio RiVer 
near Cincinnati and knocked them in the head with clubs. 
                                    D. H. T.