CHAPTER XVI. 



CAPTURING WILD ANIMALS WITH NAKED 

 HANDS 



CAPTURING WILD ANIMALS WITH NAKED HANDS BOY WHO 

 LIVED IN THE WOODS LIKE A WILD CREATURE WHAT A CAT 

 CAN DO A BOY CAN DO HOW PUSS CAPTURES HER PREY- 

 CLOSE QUARTERS WITH A GREAT HORNED OWL BOTH ENDS 

 OF IT WERE DANGEROUS STALKING WILD ANIMALS CAP- 

 TURING FULL-GROWN BIRDS ALIVE THERE WAS AN OLD 

 CROW, BLIND IN ONE EYE HOW HE WAS CAUGHT WITH 

 NAKED HANDS ALL BIRDS WITH BALD HEADS ARE NOT 

 EAGLES BITTEN BY A TURKEY BUZZARD A TURKEY BUZ- 

 ZARD IN THE HANDS OF THE GAME COCK MARKS ON THE 

 SNOW LEFT BY THE RUFFED GROUSE. 



As a lad it was my ambition to capture alive and 

 tame every wild thing I saw. Traps did not ap- 

 peal to me and I never had the desire to kill, con- 

 sequently there was but one method left for me to 

 secure the creatures for my backyard zoo and that 

 was by capturing them with my hands. It is need- 

 less to say that my first efforts in this line were 

 failures. But some volumes of Hall's Western 

 Tales chanced to fall into my hands and like every 

 other book pertaining to the wilderness, or pioneer 

 life, these books were read by me with 

 the keenest of interest. Among the stories 

 told by this pioneer historian of the West, 



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