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bird will take to a tree close by the river 
or directly along shore, in which event an 
easy shot may he had, as they seem to be 
rather slow to take the alarm on the ap¬ 
proach of a boat, if it is propelled silently. 
The old method of trapping turkeys in a 
pen by baiting them to a trench that leads 
under the bottom rail of the pen, has not 
been in use here for many years, I am 
pleased to say. It is related that twenty 
or more years ago it was the customary 
method of taking them and that it was not 
unusual to find several turkeys in the pen 
at one catch. 
i Our birds average somewhat smaller 
than those found farther north; an old 
gobbler weighing more than eighteen 
pounds is unusual, although rumor relates 
of various weights of mammoth birds up 
to twenty-four and twenty-five pounds each, 
but of these I have only hearsay evidence. 
A fiftee-n-pound bird shot late in the win¬ 
ter is a prize worthy the brush of an artist 
and the pen of a master. The gorgeous 
metallic glints and sheen of back and neck, 
the blazing red of head and throat min¬ 
gled with the blue, and the magnificent, 
sweeping, mahogany tinted fan-like spread¬ 
ing tail are a combination long to be re¬ 
membered, when after a weary tramp 
through woods and swamp, with seeming 
failure as the result, a lucky turn brings 
the longed-for chance and the wariest, 
wiliest, biggest game bird of our land lies 
prone beneath the towering pine. 
THE MOST IMPOR¬ 
TANT BAG 
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besides it relieves one’s mind. It isn’t the 
most pleasant thing to drill and be drilled 
day after day, week after week, with the 
sole thought that it is a case of kill or be 
killed. And the soldier who tramps through 
field and wood returns to camp the better 
Iman, game or no game. 
! Not a trace of animal or bird life re¬ 
gains throughout the Somme region, the 
world’s biggest graveyard. Yet that is not 
surprising, when one gazes on the thou- 
!s^nd upon thousands of shell holes, the 
shattered trunks of trees, telling without 
words of that “hell on earth” through 
which it would seem impossible for life to 
nave existed except for the briefest mo¬ 
ment. There is no chirp of bird, no scurry¬ 
ing rabbit over shell torn embankment or 
maze of closely barbed wire. It is simply 
death and desolation, human life the game, 
he thousands of little white crosses mark- 
ng the graves of men who gave their life 
dood that Democracy may live. How tiny 
•will appear the rifle and the shotgun to 
nany an American hunter once he is back 
n familiar fields and forests, the present 
>ut a terrible dream! How gladsome the 
[welcome from family and friends, from 
tubble, from woodland and from old 
aithful dog—waiting and listening for the 
ound of a familiar footstep! 
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