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Show KNEW WAYS OF TURKUY3. Texts Hunter Cot His Sleep and Game as Well. "Soruo ers ago 1 was ths guest ot a friend who owned u ranch away dowu on the Nueces rlter, In tho south, west ot Sun Antonio, ' said Mr. II. J. Kiev ot New Orleans 'Tho to-glon to-glon abounded In game, and wild turkey tur-key wore upeclally nutnorout. Katcr having bagged ouo of luotu birds, 1 wat keen to go after them, and my holt promlicd to tako Via. Wo started start-ed out on tbo hunt, tnd I could already al-ready sos a magnificent gobbler falling fall-ing to my lire. After walking sevoral mlloi my friends remarked that It wni well to rest a while, and threw himself him-self down under the shade, ot a roes-qulto roes-qulto bush, This did not suit mo at all, for I was eager to go on, and 1 remonstrated with blm about losing valuable time. For answer he rolled over on tho gran and went to sleep at which I was fired with anger and halt a notion to go back to tho houio. It wn well along In the afternoon beforo be-foro ho aroused from his nap. and then, with an apolagvtla smllo, ts said: 'Wo won't havo to wall long now, for this Is tbo placo tho turkeys como to roost, and nil wo will havo to do Is to hldo and shoot them down,' It was Just as ho ssld, and about sundown sun-down there came a superb drove of wild turke)s Unconscious ot danger, they came almost upon us beforo we lot drva nt them, wth the result that four of the largest wtro stretched upon tho ground After that 1 never criticised tho methods of a Texas hunter." Wnihlngton Tost. |
