CHAPTER XIV 



THE INDIFFERENT YOUNG GOBBLER 



OF ALL stages, conditions, and pecul- 

 I iarities of these fowls, the young 

 gobbler is the most difficult to under- 

 stand. He is absolutely unique, hence you 

 must employ entirely different tactics when 

 you go in quest of him. He has little educa- 

 tion, but he possesses a great native shrewdness, 

 and I have sometimes thought him more difficult 

 to get than either the old gobbler or hen; this 

 may be a fool's luck, or it may be the result of 

 stupidity or reticence, but I have killed ten old 

 gobblers to one young one. As I have before 

 stated, while the young males are with their 

 mothers and sisters in the flock there is little 

 difficulty in bringing them to the call after the 

 flock is scattered. But after the separation of 

 the sexes they are extremely hard to call, for the 

 reason that they have abandoned the society of 



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