Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-06-24
HTHE peculiar success that attend

1.-THE peculiar success that attend
ed my remarkable father, Reu-
ben Pettibone, as a hunter" said the
man from over Sinnemahoning way,
was due TO his marvellous knowledge
of the anatomical structure of wild
beasts as much as TO his unerring skill
as marksman.
at isn't enough 10 know he used ~
say, just where a deer's heart is locut-
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 a bullet there if you
want to be sure of your game. Not by
any means. \ deer Will go mile easy
enough with a bullet in its heart before
il will drop, and you may plug hole
clear through bears kidneys, and Yet
~ will hump himself and get far out Of
your reach III a laurel patch before he
finds out that he is a goner. You mag
get the deer, after a good dea! of
trouble and suspense, but you'll never
get the bear. The safest and only prof
table way TO hunt 10 say nothing OF
being merciful 10 your beast, Is to 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 to do then is
TO walk up am skin the deer. Never
skirmish around to draw bead on
BEARS kidneys. Separate the spinal
cord at the neck with your bullet, and
the bear will die in the middle of
breath. Every body knows my re-
markable father used 10 say, that if you
shoot the head off a pheasant as ii
swoops like the wind through the
thicket. the pheasant will drop dead.
OF course it will, but then see what
sh2cking-looking thing the dead bird is,
with its ragged, bloody. headless neck.
Beheading your pheasant thus is cruel.
Just 20 the base of the birds bill. below
the eyes, is a bunch of nerves. y SUD
den snock 10 those nerves will Kill the
bird instantly. Direct your rifle bal.
Ok the bird takes wing, so that il V IL.
whiz over that bunch of nerves so close
that if il was hair closer it woulc
break the skin. \ stroke of lightning
couldn't drop that bird any quicker
than the concussion of that passing bul.
let will. Remember this, my SON Reu,
ben PettiDone used 10 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
red, blue. yellow, green, pink and pur-
pie Mackinaw jacket. well, llnow'd
it, by guns! An kin fetch 'em in jist
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 pause,
"base insinuation comes with III grace
from man who borrows all the tobac-
co he chews"
This was hard on the man in the many.
dued jacket. lie was just on the point
of asking the man next 10 him for a bite
off his plug. and although he wanted
the chew badly. he didn't dare give i'm
mediate confederation 10 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 o.