Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-14
NUMBER 70.

of the flock could get away, for al.
ways loaded my gun quickly and shot
very quick. / picked up my turkeys,
and when reached home I found
about dozen of the teachers and stu
dents with their guns. they said,
1--WE have heard you are great turkey
hunter. We have come to go hunting
turkey tonight with you; will you go
with us?" l said, ''If you will give me
time to eat my supper will go with
YOU" When I went in the house /
found our old family physician from
Pennington; he said, Il am going with
Old Boone" (the old hunters used to
call me Old BooneJ, "and get turk y
to carry home to Mary" (that was his
wife, Another young man who was
doctor said, 81 am going with him
too" / said, "That is as many as I
want with me. Now, men the turkeys
are all on this side of the creek. and
the two doctors will go on this side of
the creek and the rest of you may go
on the other side, or we will go on that
side and you may go on this side. Take
your choice" They said, 1--WE will go
on this side.,' "Now / want it under
stood you are not to cross over to our
side and we won't cross over to your
side" s'All right" t'Now let US hurry
and get over to the other side, for those
fellows don't know anything about
hunting, and they will drive every tur-
key back to u.s." The young doctor
that was with me I knew was good
hunter. When we had got across, and
the place where 1 wanted to be, said:
"Now waltz we were back in the
woods just far enough, so when the
turkeys reached the woods where we
were they would light aud be just be-
tween us and the moon. Hold, there
comes one," and that turkey lighted in
the top of tree exactly between me and
the moon. drew down on that turk
ey and fired and it came tumbling to
the ground. Soon another one came
and Nc. killed that. had loaded and
started ahead to keep opposite of those
fellows who were driving for Us. The
old doctor took care of those we killed.;
then came another; killed that; then
another and Nc. killed that; then an
other and / killed that; then another
and Nc. burst cap at it, and said. 81
loaded my gun without any powder, 80
my hunt is up for tonight" "Well. I
will help Old Doc carry the turkeys"
and SO we went on shooting and killing
until they had stopped coming across
to us, and don't you think not one of
all those hunters had got a shot at a
turkey? So they broke the order not to
come across to US. "How many have
you killed." / said, "As many as the
times we have shot," On counting /
had killed ten and Nc. two, which
made twelve. They said, 1--WE want
to kill some turkeys" "Well, we will
go down the creek to the bottom above
the Shut-In; there Is grove of tall
gum trees where I killed great many
and / think we will find large flock
roosting in those gums" When we
came in sight Of those gum trees the
tops of the trees were loaded with tur-
keys. I'm those days or nights it was
nothing to see from one to two hundred
wild turkeys on the roosts all in sight
at one time.) And don't you think
those fellows scared all those turkeys
away and did not get single shot!
When I saw those turkeys and the |
way those fellows did, ! stole out and |
ran away out to the foot of the noun
tain, and commenced shooting. had
shot two when / heard those hunters
calling, Come on, let's go home. We
have got turkeys enough" AS was
going to meet them / saw one Of the
biggest old mountain gobblers sitting |
all alone. "Ah, / can't let you CO." 30
] brought "Old Betsey" to my should |
er and fired. How that old fellow roll
ed and tumbled down the mountain |
side. / tell you he was buster! took
him with the sother two / had killed |
and when l reached the crowd, hand
ed that old gobbler to our old doctor and |
told him to give that to Mary. And
now how many have l got? They |
and had killed thirteen, and
Nc. two; said to the crowd: "There
are the turkeys, now do what you
please with them, for have two deer
and three turkeys at home;" and didn't
they grab those turkeys and strike..for
home as fast as their legs would carry
them! and last night when looked at
the moon felt as though would love
to rove over those mountains where
the wild deer love 10 roam, but oh, my
knees, my knees, oh if they were half
as young and strong as my heart l
would, yes would; but as I can't
must content myself with talking to.
the boys and girls and sitting before
the fire and reading-and by the way,
what a terrible trial it must be to not
know how to read or to be blind. It
must be awful. We often murmur at
our complaints, and forget to be thank
ful that it is no worse. So let's be con-
tented and sing 'Oh, we will be joy
full. joyful" T. P. r.
Mr.. Sim Buckman informs us that, owing
to unforeseen circumstan ,es, he will not be
able to get aX lfrom Ironton on his travel |
ing tour, this winter anyway, and he |
desires us to tell the public that, In the |