16 THE HIVE OF THE BEE-HUNTER. 
wary game, which, in its care of preservation, flies as 
swiftly before the imaginary, as before the real danger. 
Often, indeed, is the morning’s work destroyed by 
the cracking of a decayed limb, under the nimble spring 
of the squirrel. The deer and timid antelope will stop 
to gratify curiosity ; the hare scents the air for an in- 
stant, when alarmed, before it dashes off; but the turkey 
never speculates, never wonders ; suspicion of danger, 
prompts it to immediate flight, as quickly as a reality. 
The implements of the turkey-hunter are few and 
simple ; the “call,” generally made of the large bone of 
the turkey’s wing, ora small piece of wood, into which is 
driven a nail, and a small piece of oil stone (the head 
of the nail on being quickly scraped on the stone, pro- 
ducing perfectly the noise of the female turkey), and a 
double-barrel fowling-piece, complete the list. <A rifle 
is used where the game is plentiful; and the person using 
it, as we have already described, depends upon the saga- 
city and speed of the dog, to rescue the wounded bird, 
for the turkey never instantly dies, except wounded in 
the brain. 
Where turkeys are plentiful and but little hunted, 
unskilful persons succeed in killing them; of such hunt- 
ers we shall not speak. 
The bird changes its habits somewhat with its 
haunts, growing wilder as it is most pursued; it may, 
therefore, be said to be the wildest of game. Gaining 
in wisdom according to the necessity, it is a different 
