HUNTING VIA MOTORCYCLE. 
By Charles Askins. 
In the old days—no longer ago than last 
year, and every year before for at least 
ten—no man was forbidden to shoot on 
Dave’s place except he came in an auto¬ 
mobile and stopped the machine in the 
public road. Better shake a red flag at a 
stub-tailed, long-h'orned, wall-eyed bull 
than get out of a car and enter Dave’s 
fields with a gun. 
We had fully discussed the whole thing, 
Dave and I, arriving at the unalterable 
conviction that if game was decreasing in 
this country it was solely because of the 
use of automobiles by shooting parties. 
California game had found its way into a 
motor car; Michigan deer, Wisconsin 
grouse, Minnesota ducks, Oklahoma quail, 
were all going the same route. But not 
any of Dave’s game or of his neighbor’s 
game was going that way. Not if a husky 
and determined farmer could prevent it. 
In deference to Dave’s convictions, and 
my own, I used to ride out to his place on 
horseback, and never by any chance in¬ 
vited a machine-man to accompany me. 
Like many American farmers, Dave fi¬ 
nally reached a point where he had enough 
money and enough work. He disposed of 
his stock, rented his farm, and moved into 
town. He had retained one good driving 
•am ind for a time he drove it. But the 
automobiles dashed past him, and he found 
himself forever traveling in their dust. 
You know what happened: he sold the 
team and bought a car—a good one. 
Dave had nothing to do now but shoot, 
and as I always found time enough, of 
course we would shoot together. That had 
become a fixed habit. One afternoon he 
came over to tell me that he had heard of 
thousands of doves appearing on the river 
fifteen miles away. 
“I thought we might drive out there,” 
said Dave hesitatingly. 
“It is a long ways back from the road; 
a car can never get over that trail,” was 
my reply. “And I doubt if we could get 
in with a team anyhow. It would take 
all day to drive out there.” 
Again Dave smiled. “There is only one 
way to go hunting now-a-days,” was his 
comment, as he walked around to the side 
of his pleasant bungalow. There was a 
notorcycle leaning against the door of the 
ummer kitchen. 
Dave pulled her out, set her up firmly 
on her props, and lashed our guns to a 
carrier he had arranged on the side. The 
lunch and thermos bottle and the shells 
were cached under a platform-seat in the 
rear, and I was invited to get up behind. 
In less time than it takes to tell it, we were 
wheeling down the road. 
We lifted that machine over barbed-wire 
fences, speeded down corn-rows, took a 
short cut across a pasture, and followed a 
cow-path at the foot of a bluff until we 
reached our shooting grounds. We killed 
the limit, and were back in town in time 
for supper. 
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