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the places where the flocks habitually resort. If 

 the hunter does not know the country well, and 

 is after turkeys in a thick snow-storm, instead 

 of finding them, he will be likely enough to get 

 lost himself. 



When a flock of wild turkeys is being followed 

 by tracking, they often take wing ; and there, of 

 course, their tracks end. But they generally fly 

 straight ahead, and the hunter may usually hit 

 their new tracks after they have alighted and 

 gone on again on foot. Although they fly straight, 

 they do not travel straight when on foot, but 

 sometimes wind in and out very much. Com- 

 monly their tracks will be found again within 

 three or four hundred yards of where they took 

 wing. The hunter will see where they made the 

 quick run before rising. By that he may judge 

 very nearly the direction of their flight, and fol- 

 low it. 



When there are creeks and ravines which tur- 

 keys must cross on the wing, they almost always 

 go over at the same places. In such a case as a 

 creek running across a narrow belt of timber, or 

 a ravine intersecting it, advantage may be taken 

 of this habit of the turkeys. There must be two 

 hunters. One must post himself at the crossing 



