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Show THM WILT WOOD0BU0X. It it a creature of choice teste. It prefers clover to timothy hay. It ea-joys ea-joys atring beans, vinet, leevae and all. It kaow a few herbe aad graeae on which to pamper It appetite. It will eat and destroy several hundred pound of bar in a tummer. It will devastate aa eighth of aa aer of garden io a morning if the gardener linger too long at breakfast or barpenmg hi wheel hoe. , A young woodebueh ia ged ta et. He ehoultf b ahot through th head, dressed immediately, parboiled and fried in butter. A thia browa wmr gravy, poured ever hot aoda biscuits goes very well with the young chuck. A pair of three young chucks roaated and browned ia dripping pn, with either sag or mild onion, cracker or toasted crumb dreeaiag. make a fine game dinner. Properly cooked raspberry raspber-ry tauce. a little tart in flavor It good tidt dith at could be had. Moreover, More-over, those fastidious persons who have to doctor and mesa around in everything every-thing they eat will Dad that young woodehuek salad it better thaa mutton and a good as ehiekea salad. A rah- bit ia hardly a good aa a young Aa old woodehuek should alwayt b Krboiled in taleratua water. It may boiled twic on occasion. Then, when well boiled, it should be 5 rna through the meat grinder and ground exceedingly nn. It make a meat gravy one aever forgets, and If baked ia a biscuit crust pie, with a lg tags flavor added to the tauce, one will rejoice forever more. It it better than the famous 'poeaum, and no 'coon er had a better flavor. . A woodehuek hunter needs a advice regarding the weapon with which to seek woodehuchs, but the aerie doss No animal ia harder ta kill, for it will often flee with a wound that from the aame rifle would kaoek down a deer. A rifle ia essential, aa moat of th thott are out of shotgun rang. The really, truly expert uae a heavy Jt-ealiber Jt-ealiber cartridge, a 8-J0, or even a 32 20. The repeater or igl wa-pent wa-pent are good, and th sighting should i to th best possible, for exceedingly 4 fine marksmanship ia oftener aeeetsary in woodehuek hunting thaa ia any other kind, not axeepUng deer Bunting. In fact, it ia easier to hunt and kill doer than woodehuek. animal for animal, ani-mal, but, of course, th great nueaber of woodebnek enables on to kill more of tbem, although mora shooting is ""laeny; no woodelmek k"", forget to calculate where hi bullet will stop if he ehoot at a woodrhuok ea a tump of a atone or eyea ia a r--th blek ehuek. found ta th wood, ia a regular climber. Cows and folke may obieet to being ahot by proanieea-ous proanieea-ous bullets. Ptie Observer. |