Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-12-17
"THE peculiar success that attend

HE peculiar success that attend
ed my remarkable father, Reu-
ben Pettibone, as hunter" said the
man from over Sinnemahoning way,
was due 10 his marvellous knowledge
of the anatomical structure of wild
beasts as much as 10 his unerring skill!
as a marksman.
at isn't enough TO know, he used TO
say, just where a deer's heart is locat-
ed in the animals body, or the exact
spot in the interior of a bear where the
kidneys lie snugly ensconced, and then
10 be able 10 sock bullet there if you
want to be sure of your game. Not by
any means. \ deer wIl go mile easy
enough with bullet in its heart before
it will drop, and you may plug u hole
clear through a bears kidneys, and yet
he will hump himself and get far out of
your reach in laurel patch before he
finds out that he is a goner. You may
get the deer, after a good deal of
trouble and suspense, but you'll never
get the bear The safest and only prof
liable way TO hunt, 10 say nothing of
being merciful 10 your beast, is 10 kill
your game dead where ii stands or
where it runs. Thus, always sever
yentricle of a deer's heart when you
shoot, and all you have 10 do then is
to walk up and skin the deer Never
skirmish around 10 draw bead on a
bears kidneys. Separate the spinal
cord at the neck with your bullet, and
the bear will die in the middle of a
breath. Everybody knows my re-
markable father used TO say, that if you
shoot the head off a pheasant as it
swOops like the wind through the
thicket, the pheasant will drop dead.
Of course it will, but then see what a
shocking-looking thing the dead bird is,
with its ragged bloody. headless neck.
Beheading your pheasant thus is cruel.
Just at the base of the birds bill, below
the eyes, is a bunch of nerves. \ sud
den shock TO those nerves will kill the
bird instantly. Direct your rifle ball.
as the bird takes wing, so that it will
whiZ over that bunch of nerves so close
that if it was a hair closer il would
break the skin. \ stroke of lightning
couldn't drop that bird any quicker
than the conclusion of that passing bull
let will. Remember this, my son. Reu-
ben Pettibone used to say, and never
waste, pain or mummix your game
"Of course you have all heard how
my remarkable father used 10 bring in
his scores and scores of birds, fat,
plump, and not one mutilated, but you
never knew before, l guess. by what
marvel he was able TO do It,"
1--WE didn't, hey?" said the man in the
red, blue, yellow, green, pink and pur-
pie Mackinaw jacket. well, l know'd
it, by guns! An kin fetch 'em in jst
the same way he done it,"
What" exclaimed the man from
over Sinnemahoning way. "Do you
mean to say that you can paralyze-"
Don't mean TO say nothin' o. the
kind" interrupted the man in the vare-
gated jacket. But | kin snare, by
guns!"
"Mackinaw," said the man from over
Sinnemahoning way, after a pause,
base insinuation comes with i'll grace
from man who borrows all the tobac-
co he chews."
MS was Hehiu vi Ohe man III the many
hued jacket. He was just on the point
of asking the man next TO him for bite
off his plug, and, although he wanted
the chew badly. he didn't dare give inn
mediate confederation to the man from
Sinnemahoning's remark, so he post
poned asking for the chew and suffered.
The man from over Sinnemahoning way
grinned and resumed.
'Praxiteles, my remarkable father
used to say. never waste. pain or