November, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
517 
,uried deep among the dumps of moss 
nd opaque shadows was a form that 
he keen-cutting vision of the 6x glass 
nade out as another pheasant hen. 
dotionless as a knot on the great tree 
tself she stood except for an occasional 
novement of her wary head. It was this 
hat first caught my eye. Looking with 
he naked eye into the tree nothing was 
isible but a mass of opaque shadows. 
I was perfectly cool now. She wouldn’t 
iy unless I moved from where I stood, 
die had been watching me too long and 
lad witnessed the movements of my arms 
nd head. I took my time. I carefully 
djusted the telescope. I could not have 
een to shoot her with open sights. As 
t was I did not risk a head shot as I 
;ad with the other on the open tree. I 
nerely raised the rifle until I saw her in 
he center of the field as the cross-hairs 
vere invisible. The scope did all it could 
or me in the semi-darkness and I drilled 
ier through the butt of the wings. She 
luttered noisily down, bouncing about in 
he wet leaves in the darkness. I followed 
ier by sound more than by sight, and 
-ecovered her while still flopping. 
The other one, the dead one, I search- 
ed for until I thought I would search in 
rain (although I knew approximately 
.vhere she lay) crawling over the wet 
eaves on hands and knees and feeling 
ibout for her. 
At last I put my hand upon her up- 
urned feathered breast, her warm body 
roming as a shock in contrast to the 
cold wet leaves. A sense of almost com- 
pete success permeated my being. Only 
me thing was lacking — the rooster. But 
ie had flown, the Lord only knew where, 
and now it was too dark. Taking my 
:wo hens by the feet I hit it up on a bee- 
line for the hill, as I wanted to get 
across the prune orchard before utter 
darkness settled down. 
S TRAIGHT to the hill and up it I went 
in long, Indian-like strides. Again 
:he fir pole fence. Again the open where 
:here was a little more light, although 
:he later hour made it almost as dark as 
:he woods had been when I had first en- 
tered them. In the valley, across the 
prune orchard, a yellow light glowed in 
the farmhouse window where I knew the 
family now sat at supper. 
Again I sat on top of the pole fence. 
This time beneath a great Douglas fir 
that grew in the fence-row. I had 
steered for the big trunk during the last 
hundred yards coming out of the woods. 
I had looked it over casually upon going 
in and thought nothing about it. But 
something caused me to take out the 
glasses and train them into the masses 
of shadows and foliage that stretched 
upward toward the night sky. 
Imagine my surprise when, with almost 
the first sweep of the glass on one of the 
lower branches, (still a great way up), 
I made out a pheasant on a bare limb 
between me and the sky. He looked big 
enough to be my big rooster. The two 
long tail feathers trailed a great distance 
back. He was about a hundred feet, 
straight up, silhouetted against the sky. 
He was jerking his head and watching 
me. He might pitch off at any minute. 
Still he had sat there while I climbed 
upon the fence utterly oblivious of his 
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