November, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
573 
THE HUNTED FOILS 
THE HUNTER 
By GEORGE L. KIRK 
HE hunter does not 
exist who has not 
been outwitted time 
and again by that 
noble bird, the ruffed 
grouse. How many 
things in the woods 
look like him when 
he is at rest; how 
much like a stump 
he can make his mot¬ 
tled brown and gray 
form appear to the 
eyes of the nature 
lover. “Doesn’t that stick over there (75 
feet distant) look like a partridge ?” a 
squirrel hunter inquired of his companion 
as their .22 rifles were leaned against a 
tree and the gunners reclined to rest on a 
warm September afternoon. “Yes, it does, 
but it’s only a rotten stump,” was the re¬ 
ply. The matter was forgotten as the light 
breeze made the men drowsy and when they 
looked in the direction some 20 minutes 
later the “stick” had not changed its posi¬ 
tion, but, as hunters arose to their feet, it 
suddenly developed motion and whirled 
away with the well known heart-quickening 
whirr of a grouse. 
This recital calls to mind another similar 
experience encountered by the same hunt¬ 
ers in this same squirrel grove on a differ¬ 
ent occasion. The morning had been spent 
in hunting and when midday came and the 
squirrels were not in evidence the usual 
siesta was taken. After an hour’s rest the 
hunters arose to proceed and at the same 
time a young doe, which had been lying 
down, 100 feet away, slowly assumed a 
standing posture and trotted away 
Whether it was there all the time or ar¬ 
rive during the snooze is not known. 
The writer once did a red squirrel a good 
turn unintentionally in laying up its store 
of winter food. A fine lot of butternuts 
were discovered during a Sunday walk. 
No receptacle for carrying them was at 
hand so about a bushel were gathered to¬ 
gether and safely hidden near the foot of 
the tree which bore them. A few days 
later the nut gatherers returned with bags. 
The ferns which hid the pile had not been 
disturbed but not a butternut was in sight. 
There was a chatter from the tree top and 
a glance upwards showed the rascal who 
was responsible for the thievery. 
But all this is a matter of history to the 
man who has tramped the woods for years. 
It is only repeating old stories to tell of 
the ducks that always flew behind the 
hunter as he sat on a muskrat house in a 
marsh and could not turn around, of the 
six cottontails which played under his feet 
down in the swamp that day he had no 
guns or of the grouse which flew out of 
the brushpile on which he stood after he 
had carefully searched every neighboring 
thicket for it. And so it goes; for Nature 
arms her wards of the woods with wiles 
that Man, with his “superior intelligence,” 
must often strain every‘faculty to match. 
[This chapter concludes the series of in¬ 
cidents contributed by George L. Kirk. 
Other readers who have had similar expe¬ 
riences and are as willing to confess them, 
are invited to send them in for publication.] 
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