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One of the druggists had been out shooting 
and several of us dropped into the store in the 
evening to ask the usual question of, What luck? 
After the narrative of the day’s sport had been 
related, by-gone days were talked of as is usual 
at such gatherings, and among othei incidents 
the following was related by the elder druggist. 
“Late last fall four of us were out looking 
for the last woodcock; we had two dogs and 
hunted in twos, agreeing to meet at a certain 
point in the afternoon. Each party had fair 
luck, and when we met we had five birds and 
the others six. There was a slight rivalry be¬ 
tween the parties and we wanted to show as 
good a score as they, so I proposed that we 
hunt a cover about a quarter of a mile distant. 
To this the clothier and his friend objected 
and remarked that they were ready to go home, 
as they wished the score to stand as it was and 
feared that we would tie their score, or beat 
it, as we were always" considered a lucky pair. 
However, after some talk we started and they 
went along, thinking, I suppose, that possibly 
they might get another bird or so and beat 11s 
still more. When we arrived at the cover we 
spread out and entered it; my dog made game 
and soon came to a point in a position where I 
was the only one who could see him; I said 
nothing to the others, but went up to him and 
walked up the bird, which came almost straight 
toward me. I waited until he passed, then 
turned and fired first one barrel, then the other, 
but he kept right on, and leaving the cover, 
crossed a small opening, going down among a 
few scattering trees. I thought I must at least 
have wounded him; so, calling the dog, I 
started after him. When I got there I sent the 
dog in and he worked over every foot of the 
ground, but failed to find him. I called to the 
others to come and help me find him, as they 
had not found any more birds. They came, but 
we could not find him, dead or alive. Then they 
began to laugh, and tell me that I had shot at 
a robin, but I was positive, and went over the 
ground again with the dog but without success. 
I had about concluded that the bird must have 
flushed again before the dog got there, when, 
as we were coming out of the timber, I noticed 
the dog making game near an old rotten log 
just at the edge. I called the others’ attention 
to it, and we went over there all ready to shoot 
at the first sound of the whistle. But no 
whistle was heard, although we looked carefully 
and walked all around the log. I suggested 
that possiby the bird had been wounded and 
crawled under the log. As it did not appear to 
be hollow, the other fellows laughed, but finally 
one of them helped me roll the log half over, 
which proceeding failed to reveal the bird. We 
both let go of it at the same instant; and it 
rolled back with a crash, splitting in two from 
the jar; and there, to our astonishment, on 
one-half of the split log, lay my woodcock, still 
alive, but badly wounded. On studying the 
problem of how the bird got there we found 
that at that portion of the log a knot had been 
pulled out, leaving a hole just large enough to 
admit the woodcock, but how he came to go 
into the hole is still a mystery.” 
A few evenings later I happened into the 
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