The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-11-04
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HE COULD SHOOT. !
Great Execution Done by Reuben
Pettibone's Son.
1.-THE peculiar success that attend
ed my remarkable father, Reu

1.-THE peculiar success that attend
ed my remarkable father, Reu-
ben Pettibone, as IA hunter" said the
man from over SinnemahoningI way,
''was dne to his marvellous knowledge
of the anatomical structure of wild
beasts as much AS to his unerring skill
as n marksman.
1T isn't enough to know, he used to
say, Just where deer's heart is locat-
ed in the animals body, or the exact
spot in the interior of bear where the
kidneys lie snugly ensconced, and then
to be able to sock a bullet there If you
want to he sure of your game. Not by
any means. A deer vial go mile easy
enough with "a bullet in it's heart before
it will drop. and you may plug a hole
clear through bears kidneys, and yet
he will hump himself ami get far out Of
your reach in laurel patch before he
finds out that he is a goner. You may
get the deer, after good deal of
trouble and suspense, but you'll never
get the bear. The safest and only prof
liable way to hunt, to say nothing of
being merciful to your beast, is to kill
your game dead where it stands or
where it runs. Thus, always sever a
ventricle of deer's heart when you
shoot, and all you have to do then is
to walk up and skin the deer. Never
skirmish around to 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 sny. that II you
shoot the head of pheasant as 1t
swoops like the wind through the
thicket. the pheasant will drop dead.
OF course it will. but then see what
shocking-loolsing thing the dead bird is.
with It's ragged. bloody, headless neck.
Beheading your pheasant thus is cruel.
just at the base of the birds bill, below
the eyes, is q bunch of nerves. A sud-
den shock to.those nerves will kill the
bird instantly. Direct your rifle ball.
a. the bird takes wing, SO that it will
whiz over that bunch Of nerves SO close
that if it was hair closer it would
break the skin. A stroke of lightning
couldn't drop that bird any quicker
Ahan the concussion of that passing bull
let will. Remember this, my son. Reu-
ben Pettibone used to say, and never
waste. pain or mumInix your game
"Of course you have all heard how
my remarkable father used to bring in
his scores and scores of birds. fat,
plump. and not one mutilated, but you
never knew before, ! guess, by what
marvel he was able to do it,"
I'VE didn't, hey?" said the man in the
Z red. blue, yellow. green. pink and pur-
pie Mackinaw jacket. well, know'd
1t. by guns! An kin fetch 'em in jist
the same way he done i'll"
what" exclaimed the man from
over Snnemahoning way do you
mean to say that you can paralyze-"
Don't mean to say nothin' O. the
kind!" interrupted the man in the varie-
gated jacket. but kin snare. by
guns!"
''Mackinaw." said the man from over
Ginnemahoning way. after a pause,
''base insinuation comes with i'll grace
from man who borrows all the tobac-
co he chews."
This was hard on the man in the many
SAhued jacket. He was just on the point
of asking the man next to him for q bite
OF bis plug. and. although he wanted
the chew badly. he didn't dare give i'm
mediate corroboration to the man from
6innemahoning's remark. 30 he post.
5 poned asking for the chew and suffered
The man from over 6innemahonipg way
griuned and resumed. 0t3}
'Praxitelss.' my rsmarkable father
used 10 cay. never waste. pain oI
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