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impression, and I stood and watched with great 

 interest her long, level flight. As she neared the 

 end of the clearing, she set her wings and sailed 

 straight into the corner of the woods. I found no 

 robins, but went back satisfied with having seen 

 the turkey, and having had an experience that I 

 knew would stir up the envy and the disgust of my 

 companions. They listened with ill-concealed im- 

 patience, stamped the ground a few times, uttered a 

 vehement protest against the caprice of fortune that 

 always puts the game in the wrong place or the 

 gun in the wrong hands, and rushed off in quest 

 of that turkey. She was not where they looked, of 

 course ; and, on their return about sundown, when 

 they had ceased to think about their game, she 

 flew out of the top of a pine-tree not thirty rods 

 from camp, and in full view of them, but too far off 

 for a shot. 



In my wanderings that afternoon, I came upon 

 two negro shanties in a small triangular clearing in 

 the woods ; no road but only a footpath led to them. 

 Three or four children, the eldest a girl of twelve, 

 were about the door of one of them. I approached 

 and asked for a drink of water. The girl got a glass 

 and showed me to the spring near by. 



"We's grandmover's daughter's chilern," she 

 said, in reply to my inquiry. Their mother worked 

 in Washington for "eighteen cents a month," and 

 their grandmother took care of them. 

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