CHAPTER V. 



A TRIAL BY JUDGE LYNCH HUNG FOR CONTEMPT OP COUBt — -QCAIL SHOOTING 



HABITS OF THE BIRDS, AND MODE OF KILLING THEM A RING OF QUAILS — TH«S 



EFFECTS OF A SEVERE WINTER — THE SNOW GOOSE. 



A SHORT time after supper, Tenacious Gripe 

 appeared with the mayor of the city, who 

 wished to make the acquaintance of the Professor. 

 The two august personages bowed to each other. It 

 was the happiest moment in their respective lives, 

 they declared. An invitation was extended us to 

 delay our departure another day and try quail shoot- 

 ing. The citizens said the birds were unusually 

 abundant, the previous winter having been mild 

 and the summer long enough for two separate broods 

 to be hatched, and the brush and river banks were 

 swarming with them. As we were about to abandon 

 the birds of the West and seek an acquaintance with 

 its beasts, we decided, after a brief consultation, to 

 accept the invitation and remain another day. 



Among the persons present in the crowded office 

 of the hotel, was a man from the southwestern part 

 of the state who had lately been interested in a trial 

 before the celebrated Judge Lynch. Sachem inter- 

 viewed him, and reports his statement of the occur- 

 rence in the log book, as follows : 



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