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pretty good shot at twenty rods," continued Mr. 

 Green, referring to the wounded spot. 



'MVashe as far off as that?" I inquired, as I 

 handed him over to be picked. I was not familiar 

 enouo-h with a trapped turkey to detect the deceit if 

 there was any, and Scth, seeing my inability, made 

 the most of it. 



^' What is to be our reward for the hard work we 

 have been doing ? I tell you it is no easy thing to 

 stalk a turkey, and if any other of the party had 

 done as much, I wouldn't grudge them the nicest 

 sour orange punch that could be made." 



Turkeys are caught in parts of the country by a 

 curious trap or pen, and I had heard that such a pen 

 ■was used in Florida. It is built of logs on the four 

 sides and over the top, a hole being left at one side 

 just large enough to allow the bird to enter in a 

 stooping posture. Corn is strewed on the ground 

 leading to this hole, and scattered about so as to at- 

 tract attention, and the way the trap Vv'orks is this: 

 the turkey finds the food and follows it, picking 

 up grain after grain, keeping his head bent down, 

 and in that posture enters tlie pen without trouble. 

 There he remains without a suspicion of wrong till 

 he has consumed all the corn. After the food so 

 kindly supplied ia gone, he begins to think of mov- 

 ing on, when to his surprise he discovers that man 

 rarely does any favor without expecting a return, no 

 less in this case than the toothsome body of the re- 

 cipient. The turkey never stoops, even to save his life, 

 he looks upward and not doAvnward, he will not bow 



