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Show bak again-1 a tree. In full view, and. strange to say. he will walk up ml'.hln tm steps without seeing you." Just then me noticed that the sun was down; the old hunter Invited me to s;end the night at his camp, which 1 did. and had a most pleasant time. r"rom Korent and Stream. WALKS TO DEATH. ml lb Inanl Hlrfls la Oftaa IM t!4 bf Ra Ibul Ortal. After trudging all day long the top of the mountain with no suoe-a at all. Inasmuch as I bad ahot aeveral times, but failed to brlrg down my game, I ran across an old huuter. J. W. Hyde. After the usual greeting me seated ourselves on an old lug to exchange cotes. I put the question: "Why are the turkeys aln) on the run mhen 1 see them' The old man sp.l through his tt-eth. laid his long, muz-lie-loadir.g ritle on the ground, put the fourth portion of a plug pf toba.'io In h's mouth, and proceeded to tell me why the tuikes mere alway on t;ie run when I saw them. "Of ail the gunie I have ever hunted, turkeys display dis-play the mot wonderful pum-vr of vis-Ion. vis-Ion. I cannot tell Just mhy this Is. I have made a micrua. -epical exaiuina-t:on exaiuina-t:on of the eyes of the hawk, eag'e. fox. weasel and owl, but find no material ma-terial difference in the lens and retina; re-tina; the ciliary mu?clea and the Irli are exactly the same; yet nene of these keen-vlfcioned creatures can compare com-pare mlth the turkey In point of seeing. see-ing. I remember the acuteness of light displayed by an old gobbler In the spring of lSI. I had carefully concealed myself, and no part of my body mas visible but the upper portion por-tion of my head. A puff of mind l:ghtly disturbed the brim of my hat; he saw It and Immediately took to flight. On another occasion I mas hunting in the mountains in C 'orgla. I mas lying behind a log and was carefully hidden, all but the upier part of my face. A turkey was slowly comii.g In response to my call, an1 was carefully nothing for signs of danger.'- A ROeiiUo was stingiMK ni fearfully on the forehead; I ralt-ed my flng-T slowly to crush It. and as eooa as the finger came mithla the range of vision, cluck went the turkey and he mas gene. Now, the mot Inexplicable Inexplic-able thing In regard to hunting turkeys tur-keys is that, m lth all his acuf n 'ss of sight, the surest may to get a shot ls to sit down in nn open place with your I |