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Saturday, January 22, 1010
The Wild Turkey
We have been asked many times about
the exact truth of several things vaguely
felt but not definitely ascertained by the
casual visitor. One is farms. Another
is about the wild turkey. I have never
seen a man, unless it was Dr. William
Hill, who knew definitely about farms.
But the elusive turkey question has been
settled hereabout by experts of the first
water.
There lives on the waters of Drowning
Creek an old gentleman whose acquain
tance with the wild bird and with the
barnyard fowl are about equal. He un
derstands their domestic habits and pri
vate tastes, and can talk their language
through a reed or even on a piece of
slate, and has been on fmiliar terms with
them all his life. To him I repaired and
put these questions:
1 "Are there any wild turkeys here
abouts?" .
2 "Can I kill one?"
He answered readily. "There are."
"You cannot."
He meant no offense. His vice was
frankness. A little discussion revealed
his convictions that with the decline of
the skilled and patient woodsman the tur
key tribes had increased ten fold, and
with impunity. For of all the inhabitants
of the forest the old gobler is the only
on9 that is not lulled to a sense of secu
rity or dulled into careless habits. He
is a thoroughbred) and his religion is to
keep the utmost possible mileage between
him and the Christian human at all times,
and without any exception. He is never
off his guard, and is never mistaken. He
is all ears and all nose and all legs. He
has a careful chart of the inaccessible
and dangerous places of the entire State,
and in these he camps on the alert, con
fident from experience that only one more
enduring and painstaking than himself
can ever come up with him, however many
guns and dogs and turkey squeakers they
may have.
Here we are in the very heart of the
Turkey country. But we never kill them,
except by chance out quail hunting. For
the living truth is that we do not love the
woods, and silence, and the still and dis
tant place enough to hunt them out. But
they are killed every week in every dire-
tion by the old settlers, who are almost
as taciturn and elusive and unseen as the
birds themselves.
A MIDNIGHT START
And really, I do not blame us. My
last attempt at turkey slaughter rankles
still in my mind, and is doubtless a monu
mental joke to this day in . feathered
gatherings. "Herous," I said, "I will
dine on wish bone of my own killing,
with the tang of the woods therein." I
communicated my desire to one wise to
the ways of the roost and the range. Not
long afterwards he turned up one even
ing in the Wintertime somewhat after
dark and conveyed the alarming informa
tion that we should proceed to the sport
next morning at midnight. By the light
of pine knots we indulged in coffee and
biscuits, and then piled the dogs and guns
and divers other odd instruments worn
smooth with age, into a buggy ,and drove
out into a cold and distant woods. Ob
serve that distance is of no moment to the
turkey hunter. One mile or twenty, it is
all he same.
By some subtle method of their own the
turkey had established themselves a roost
at the exact spot a mathematician would
have designated as th' locus of a point
equally remote from every habitation
in the country. Their cunning was
more diabolical still. They had selected
a pine tree for this game, one of thirty,
all exactly alike, thus resorting to the
ruse for self protection first adopted by
King Henry the Fourth when he dressed
all his knights in the same suit of armour
as he wore himself.
the turkey's little game
Our guide selected the tree, and we
snuk up on it in various imitations of
Chingogcook, guns cocked, and eyes
straining. This at four a. m. Complete
and monumental silence until six ten. I
then selected by bird on a limb far above
me, and waited for the signal to fire. It
was to be broadside and a massacre. As
the dim light advanced I perceived I had
made a slight mistake, and that my bird
was a pine cone. I hastened to correct
the error and cover another bird further
up. The coming daylight revealed this
also to be an error. The object appeared
to have bark and not feathers on its crest.
And just as I was on the point of
concluding that there were no turkeys at
all in the world, our pathfinder muttered
an unseemly word which called attention
to the fact that three or four hundred
yards off the whole tribe were descending
refreshed from another tree, leisurely
stretching their wings and extending
their long legs in derision.
the screech of dawn
They took one casual look, and then
set off in unison at a pace calculated to
discourge pursuit, for parts unknown.
I then considered the hunt finished, and
said something fatuous about fortunes of
war, and sportsman's luck.
The hunt, dear friend, had just begun.
The dogs, crazy with excitement, were
loosed, and disappeared with incredible
speed into the forest, barking like all
possessed. In two minutes they were gone
utterly, and silence again fell on all the
world.
I must say that sunrise in the heart of
the wilderness, contract with the frosty
morning air, and the feel of the gun, and
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