May, 1919 
FOREST AND STREAM 
245 
T he description of how towards eve- 
ning he killed his first partridge, 
when his father sent him off by 
himself to a little grove of hemlocks 
where some birds had taken refuge, is 
interesting. 
“Then it was that I started on my 
first real hunt alone. I went along i 
quickly, but carefully, towards the hem- 
locks. There were five of these trees in | 
a group and from the side I was ap- | 
preaching the branches were so thick 
(and I was looking toward the dark 
thick woods, too) that I could not see 
the parts of the trees where the bird 
would be likely to light. I went way 
round the bunch of hemlock until I 
could look into them from the woods side 
and toward the light of the west. The 
light was growing a little dim for the 
sun was sinking down close to the hori- 
zon, but my eyes were good then. 
“I carefully examined every branch 
on the tree next to me, and then the 
next, and found no partridge. I began 
to feel the chances were slim of finding 
the bird as the best, trees for him to 
light in I had already searched. But I 
commenced to examine the third tree. I 
began first to scan the lower limbs and* 
my eyes passed along up the tree and 
searched each limb carefully. When my 
eyes had reached two-thirds to the top of 
the tree and about thirty feet from the 
ground, all at once I saw the old part- 
ridge sitting close to the body of the 
tree, with his breast toward me. He 
looked as big as a goose sure. After a 
second, just a second, my wits came to 
me and I raised the old ‘Pill-lock’ to my 
face. Somehow I had cocked it but I 
never could recollect how or when. 
' “I looked straight at the light colored 
feathers of the breast and pulled the 
trigger. The gun made an awful noise 
and turned me half ’round. It gave out 
a long stream of fire and lots of smoke. 
I remember hearing the noise of the dis- 
charge as it went off through the big 
maples and beeches. I never will forget 
that shot. It took me about a good, 
long second to bring myself together. I 
looked to the foot of the tree and there 
lay the bird dead as a stone. I ran 
where he was and picked him up. 
“That was one of the proudest mo- 
ments I have ever known in my life. I 
turned my face toward the sky, and 
gave a halloo of joy and victory. Just 
then the dog came to me in a bound — 
to see what all the noise was about, I 
suppose. I held the bird down to the 
spanniel, and he looked up in my face 
and whined, and moved his tail, as much 
as to say, ‘Well, that is good enough’. 
“I went along out to where father 
was. I had the old “Pill-lock” in one 
hand, still smoking, and the partridge 
in the other. There were logs and 
bushes in my road, but I say to you, 
here and now, that I did not remember 
stepping over either logs or brush. 
“I held up to father’s gaze the part- 
ridge, and he said, ‘Well, well you have 
done it sure. That is a fine bird, and 
it was a lucky venture when you went 
after him. You are all right now, and 
shall go hunting again with me’.” 
The story depicts a phase in American 
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