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birds is to take a track and walk the bird down. Usu- 
ally, for several hours the turkey keeps well ahead of 
the hunter, the man steadily following the track and 
obliterating the turkey’s trail as he goes. After a 
time the turkey is likely to grow tired, and at length 
to hide, when it can be flushed and shot on the wing. 
Sometimes, to be sure, if the ground was unfavorable 
for hiding, the turkey might fly, but usually it did not 
go far, and its track could be taken again. A short 
but well told story of tracking turkeys in the snow 
was printed in Forest and Stream, October 26, 1907, 
from a correspondent signing himself “Brinkstine.” It 
took place in Missouri: 
“We walked two or three hours, and not a sign of 
aturkey. Another hour, and yet no sign. We rounded 
a deserted field with no success, further than seeing 
plenty of rabbits and a few squirrels, but we did not 
want to set the hills quaking by shooting such game. 
“We were tired. Walking in a foot of snow four 
or five hours steadily, and as silently as possible, 1s 
not conducive to a hilarious feeling, as one grows cold 
and hungry. We built a fire, ate our lunch, rested and 
warmed ourselves. We were almost discouraged, but 
started on with some hope of success. We walked 
two or three hundred yards, and found a turkey track, 
and a huge one. We had gone a quarter of a mile 
when the tracks of three other turkeys joined the one 
we were tracking. One turkey would not satisfy us 
both, so we were glad to know that there were four 
turkeys in the woods. Just as we were ready to start 
