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turkey was quite an episode. My 

 friends Dreiss and Fritze were 

 sitting on the front seat of an am- 

 bulance whilst we were driving 

 through the quiet but most im- 

 posing forest of oak and pecan 

 trees toward evening one day. 



when about thirty yards off in an 

 open space of a brush thicket I 

 perceived about ten wild turkeys 

 including two fine gobblers. As 

 soon as I saw them I told the dri- 

 ver ,to stop the horses, and "bang," 

 down came one of the bigest gobb- 



OuR Winter Camp Under a Large Oak Thee With a Turkey and Some Rabbits Hanging on it 



While the two gentlemen had their 

 guns stored underneath their feet, 

 I had my old "reliable" ready for 

 action, in. case we should 

 meet some game. Hardly had we 

 entered the shades of the forest 



lers in the group. But my friends 

 Were not at all pleased that I was 

 in such a hurry to shoot and I re- 

 ceived some rather uncomplimen- 

 tary "Hail Columbia" for the 

 act; but all was soon serene again 



