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I would stuff the turkey in the bag 
and then would begin the long tramp 
home, during which would be lived over 
again the whole delightful journey with 
its still more delightful recompense and 
with many lessons given a youngster in 
the lore of the woods and fields, from 
the lips of the best father a boy ever 
had, lessons which were renewed on 
many a subsequent occasion ; lessons not 
alone in wood lore but in the ethics of 
true sportsmanship. 
Many a stinging criticism have I 
heard him utter concerning the wanton 
destruction of game and I was repeated- 
ly admonished, in no uncertain language, 
that the true sportsman never took more 
than he needed; that he never killed out 
of season, thereby violating the law ; 
that he never shot at a moving object 
in the woods until he saw it clearly and 
knew just w'hat it was. These and many 
another valuable lesson were instilled 
into my mind during those beautiful 
tramps ; in fact, looking back now, 
through the retrospect of years, I cannot 
help but believe that my father had a 
double purpose in taking rrie with him on 
those expeditions. Time, place and cir- 
cumstance were all conducive to im- 
pressing upon my young mind not only 
the things I have mentioned but also 
those other things about which every 
boy ponders and concerning which he 
wishes to ask questions, and he took this 
opportunity to tell me about the myster- 
ies of life — all life — telling it to me in a 
clean and wholesome way, so that later, 
when I heard these things discussed 
among my playmates, the effect was only 
to disgust and make me feel sorry for 
those boys because, in my opinion, they 
did not have a real father ; and to-day I 
feel that for any moral courage, respect 
for my elders, honor for true manhood 
and true womanhood and reverence for 
God and sacred things which I may pos- 
sess, I owe to those sincere talks with 
dad alone in the silence of the woods. 
IT was a few years later, when I was 
^ in my fourteenth year, and when it 
was considered safe for me to go alone 
into the woods wdth gun that the Great 
Temptation occurred. 
One delightful afternoon in the last 
days of August I went for a tramp 
through the woods, not exactly to hunt, 
although I took the old gun along for 
company, but to satisfy that longing we 
all possess. The open season on game 
birds began on September 1st. A few 
minutes before sunset I reached a field, 
unfenced, and bounded on three sides by 
woods, the remaining side fronting a 
lake. It was comparatively new ground, 
containing numerous stumps, but had 
been sown to wheat the previous year. 
As I stood partially concealed behind 
some hazel brush and looked across the 
stubble, I saw, flying directly toward me, 
and only a few feet above the ground, 
a large bird which at first glance I took 
to be a hawk, but which the next in- 
stant I recognized as a wild turkev. 
Stepping further behind the hazel, with 
gun to shoulder, I waited developments. 
He alighted in the field, taking a short, 
swift run to overcome momentum and 
then stopped within a hundred feet of 
head 
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