Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-11-06
Luck Fills the Game Bag
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IT USED to spend more than half

USED to spend more than half
my time in the Pennsylvania
woods hunting and trapping during
the season." said resident Of the
Southern Tier, because loved The
chase, and loved to try my Skill and
ingenuity in outwitting the cunning
OF the fox, the bear, the wildcat and
other sagacious beasts in Turing them
TO my traps and snarcs and pitfalls.
And used to gloat at the way could
run down and bag the feet and willy
deer It was great sport, and I used
to get indignant when some one would
exclaim when I came in with II lot OF
game:
Say, maybe you didn't have good
luck
That always made me indignant.
and would reply: Luck be blowc,l
No luck about it. Skill! That's what
fills Your game bng. Skill. not luck
And thought and believed so. o!
course. But haven, been in lie
woods hunting or trapping now for
more than ten years. The fact OF
the matter is, I got disguised. found
out that I had to take back IL good
deal of what had always said about
there not being anything in luck bag
/
did it. not>{uck. Had TO take it back
and 1t dis9!sted me SO that came
n e1'-r','r gror up my gun, gave my traps
In which haven't been in the woods
:. one cc"asio
i,ei.-,:de wuy nv dsrnst s+artod ~ ~
s,-.ah.e possession of me- was +hrour,
sssras3s1 experience I had an Kct,l. crnr,;
III the fall Of ,sG An immense r,cl.
lind been airino himself IN ~. n,i,rl
borlood of nv ca,np on thc crccl, T,
didn't take mo ,onr Ia 1isrornr ,h.,
he was nc smart nc he wac l,,r ~,
T us4ad ali the tricLs Ind l.,rn.l j.;
80 wears as a hunter md ,r,nner in
tryinr 10 b,r that hurk I'M No ,,,t
the hest az M cv,rv,i limo Thar s,,nc
fail n wildcat lna ik4vis. dencl All
my skill ns a Kramer ana continual
TO pro,yl around ,nrrc lou,.hiu~ mo.
md. 1c increase nv clnurin over thr
situation. n big she benr followed hv
couple of snriu,r cubs took 10 lo,nr
ing and fornginc and slouchinr almost
under my very nose. and vet rave me
the slip every time I went out with
NV gun and 1rented with conten,pt my
efforts to show them what a s,,n.rior
Iissembler l was in fixing n,rnn
.I was prowinp furious when soma
little reimbursement came to me.
discovered ina. had rot. The best at
The wttdcnt e0onrh to fool her into
steppIn., into # steel tran. Int the
ugly cri,ter had walked nv,y Win ,hp
trap. I followed the trail Of the Wild
cat for miles and lost il. The same day
got after the buck and thought !
had him dead sure when the cunning
old cuss circu,nyentcd me the s,ick.sl
kind. I was going back TO Camp dis
rusted when struck he track of the
bear and the two cubs. Although |
knew from the marks in the snow the
4 hear must have passed that way two
OF three hours before. / struck right
in after EN- with teeth set and blood
In my eye had followed them mile
or more and INC track was sc'llns
1resher' "heh hearo shot or 70
my le1t: went down 20 see VINO u
was ana what ne haa shot. ! found
1sllo" named asa loie' WHO ar"Ve
teu1n LOT the mil people. lie sat IN
the snow ana 'ooAeo hhl1 scared 70
oeath. six 1eet away, 10 my alhaHe-
nsht ana increased a'ss"s'' Jay 'he
Mnoca' ! hao ''iee' 50 'o"s 10 cap, ure,
zap "as on one % - iegs a''o we
s;aa ~ a,s go $3.50 Du,.e s, 'o.. ~ ~
50 - ,"p'
~ ~ sss''ea - ''''"A Ne
M.Did Won hc;r me shoo1,n,o, saio H.,