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planned that I should go with S., my boatman 
and guide, and we to take the dog, while J., who 
was not a new hand at the work, should cross 
over the creek a half mile above camp and try 
his luck alone. He had heard an old gobbler 
over there a day or two before and was quite 
confident of success. 
After exhausting our patience around the 
camp-fire, we started through the woods and 
swamp, trying to keep in the old road; but time 
and again getting off into the wet ground, 
stumbling over logs or running up against the 
outstretched stalks of palmetto. A half mile or 
more of this brought us to where J. was to 
branch off; and as there was still no signs of 
daybreak, we built a fire to temper the chilly 
night air, and sat around it for nearly an hour; 
and finally decided (and after events proved) 
that we had begun our hunt about 2 A. M. 
After leaving J. with instructions to yell for 
us if he should wound a bird and need the dog 
to trail it up, we followed the old road. Now 
that we were among the older cabbage my guide 
showed me a novel substitute for a lantern. 
Picking up a fallen and dry palmetto leaf with 
stem five or six feet long, and palm spreading 
four feet or more, he lighted it, and marched 
ahead with torch on shoulder, lighting our way 
most brilliantly. When one was burnt out it 
was dropped and another lighted from the 
embers with scarcely a halt. They seemed to 
ignite easily, but burned steadily and not 
rapidly. For a mile or more we traveled in this 
way, with cabbage and pine arching over us, our 
light glistening through the overhanging 
branches, until we approached the supposed 
vicinity of the turkey roost. Then we put down 
our torches, rested our guns against a tree, and 
dried our feet for a few minutes by the flames 
of a few palmetto leaves hastily drawn together. 
We stood thus probably ten minutes, when S. 
moved a few:steps from the path, put up both 
hands to his mouth and gave an excellent imi- 
tation of the hoot of the barred or swamp owl, 
“Hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo oo-oo.” This, he had in- 
formed me, usually provoked a gobble from any 
turkeys if near at hand. The echo had scarcely 
died away, when to our astonishment a turkey 
flew off, with no warning, from the lower 
branches of a pine not twenty feet from where 
we were standing. Daylight was far enough aa- 
vanced for each of us to note a very blank look 
on the face of the other fellow, as we saw a 
dark form disappear in the treetops before either 
could lay hands on a gun. A minute or two 
later a second bird was heard to fly from a short 
distance behind us, and apparently close by the 
path we had followed. We had: gone too far 
and were right in the midst of them. We kept 
perfectly quiet in hopes others would betray 
themselves or that we could call them up after 
a little; but within ten minutes we heard a shot 
over across the creek and then J.’s call; so, on 
the uncertainty of our getting another shot, S. 
took the dog and hurried off. I lay quiet for 
an hour or more, heard several distant gobbles, 
which I followed, but saw no birds. I started 
over to join the others and found they had 
followed the wounded bird more than a mile, 
and J. had finally shot it as it flew from a low 
tree. It was a large gobbler, which we. judged 
would weigh over 20 pounds. The meat was 
excellent as prepared by camp cooks and 
flavored with a “cracker’s” appetite. Thus 
ended my third turkey hunt, a good deal more 
interesting than the others, but so far as I am 
concerned, no more successful.. If any of the 
readers of FOREST AND STREAM know of a few 
real tame wild turkeys, information is solicited. 
MELacris. 
CINCINNATI, O.—Inclosed money order for $3 
for renewal of my subscription to the old friend 
that I have perused ever since its first issue and 
can’t do without. E. S. WHITAKER. 
Fonp pu Lac, Wis.—I like the new form very 
much. I have taken the paper for ten years and 
enjoyed every number. I shall save them from 
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