Wild Turkey. 101 



" The first flight of a turkey when being coursed is 

 rarely more than a mile, and the second about half as long. 

 After that, if it gets up at all again, it is for very short 

 flights so near the ground that it is soon cut down by 

 any hound. The astonishing springs a greyhound who is 

 an old hand at turkey coursing will make are a constant 

 source of surprise and wonder to those fond of the sport. 

 A turkey, after coming down from his first flight, will 

 really perform the feat which fable attributes to the 

 ostrich ; that is, will run its head into a clump of bushes 

 and stand motionless as if, since it cannot see its foes, it 

 were itself equally invisible. During the day turkeys are 

 scattered all over the plains, and it is no unusual thing 

 to get in one afternoon's ride eight or ten of them." 



