HUNTING TURKEY WITH A DOG 219 



If you employ a dog in gobbling time, he must 

 be thoroughly educated to distinctly know his 

 part, which is to keep at heel or lie at your side 

 and watch without a sound until the bird is called 

 to gun and shot; then the dog is allowed to go 

 and seize the quarry if it is not killed by the shot 

 and making off with a broken wing. 



In Alabama I once saw a large gobbler coming 

 slowly to my call over a pine hill about ninety 

 yards away. I fired at him with my rifle as he 

 was moving in a full strut. At the shot, my 

 gobbler tumbled over, but quickly got up and 

 made off at a lively run with one wing hanging. 

 I started after him, at the same time calling to 

 my brother (who was below me on a creek, call- 

 ing another turkey) to let go his dog. In a 

 moment I saw a gray streak shoot out from the 

 thicket on the creek, and start up the hill 

 in pursuit of the running gobbler. It was my 

 brother's Scotch terrier, and within one hun- 

 dred and fifty yards the dog overhauled the 

 gobbler, to my great satisfaction, and held 

 him until I arrived. Had I not had the services 

 of a dog at this time the turkey would have 



