Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-02
HUNTING IN ARKANSAS.
The Record Of the Christian County
Hunting Club.
10y AUSTIN PEAY.]


not well ana Cauule ana warner
make the wild cat drive. The stand.
ers on the main road saw and heard
nothing, but over on the old levee
Pete Barker killed two fawn, one
after the other from the same stand,
firing only once at each one. We
now move and make the drive be
tween the river and the levee, and
e 1t up deer which ran contrary.
l saw another jumping through the
bushes. Deacon McCOmb and Bald,
win made the same drive back. Most
of the men had deserted and gone
to camp. Soon had up BUCK, which
ran across the levee at Barker s
stand, but Pete had gone down into
the woods to shoot ducks, and did
kill two mallards, and in the mean
time the buck ran over his stand,
Burke firing long shot at him as he
passed in the rear The dogs were
running a doe at the same time,
which Hart headed off in an old
field and shot at twice, but did no
damage. Warner also shot at a large
buck.
1t was now late, but as we came
back l stopped at Cypress to try the
geese. They came in great numbers,
but shooting geese flying with buck
shot is an uncertain quantity, and /
only killed two fine fat fellows.
The men who came back to camp
this morning-they did not desert,
but had failed hear the signals to
gather-made drive near camp and
Garnett killed spike buck.
Henry Drane took the colored con-
tingent and seined the upper lake.
Caught a fine lot of buffalo, one
weighing thirty pounds and an
enormous gar of the all gator variety,
which had teeth like saw and
would weigh over seventy.five
pounds. When they pulled him out
our dapper cook, whom l have de
scribed in another chapter, took to his
heels, and it required a great per-
suasiOu to get him back again.
Mr. Lennox went home to day.
Wednesday, Nov. 18-Very cold
this morning, and lake is half frozen
over. Not much fun in hunting
now, but we got to the woods west OF
camp and placing ISLANDERS, drive.
Started several deer, but as usual in
this drive they ran beyond the bear
cane. Two dogs struck a trail and
went over the lake behind me, and
there started a doe. / had hardly
faced around when | saw her coming
across the valley and once | thought
she Swould come straight to me, but
she veered, ran out too low down.
| fired long shot, but do not know
whether / hit her or not. Got some
more dogs, changed and made the
other end of same drive.
Got up several deer. One very
large, fine buck crossed the lake bot
tom above camp, and the dogs push.
ed him so hard that he tried to cross
back again and was running into
camp. The colored boys were wait
ing for him, but one of them, Ash
ton, had the buck ague SO badly that
he fired his gun into the air, and the
buck ran back again, Wash Mills
shooting at him as he entered the
woods.
Ed. Drane killed dozen malards
at the lake to day.
We are talking of going home.
A sad disaster has overtaken us--the
spirit cask is empty. Holding it in
friendly embrace, am writing upon
its head now, and when / take it
and speak to it gently the sound is
given forth hollow, all hollow:
feel like one who t,eads alone.
Some banquet han deserted
Whose lights are fed,
Whose garlands dead
And all but him departed.
Thursday, the 10Th, and the last
day of the hunt. 1t is cold and
cloudy.
We make the wildcat drive as a
farewell. And a farewell it has been, |
a farewell memorable to the deer,
for the boys have bombarded them |
all day. Early in the drive the dogs |
carried some deer far away beyond !
the stands. Young, Lennox and |
Warner followed them over the Mill |
larry road, and there they headed |
hem off, and Warner killed a fawn |
and LennoX badly wounded a doe. !
Warner says there were four packs of |
logs running four separate deer at
he same time. Caudle was listening
o this chase when doe and fawn
an IN behind him. He shot at the
avn a long shot. Captain White
anne to camp and got some more
logs and continued the drive. Soon
lad up fdwn, which crossed the lie
zee by Burke, who shot at it twice
nd wounded it with both shots, but
t went on and was shot at twice by
and also by Baldwin, but
t ran to the Arkansas river and was
nSt in tho river