The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-03
MANY TURKEYS STILL FOUND
in MOUNTAINS OF ARKANSAS.

4 'em; they've been hunted so much and
! called up and shot at TN they'll go to
the other way, aud hush goDblin' ths
/ minute they hear call, and the sawneys
| haven't started 90 gobble yet. nohow.
| A sawaney. as the natives call A., is a
young gobblerJ
| The gObbling YOU have heard proves the
birds 10 be fairly plentyful where. few
would have expected "a ind them. But
| YOU have failed to realize that .ciNlz-
alton has educated these turkeys and no
| longer will they walk up 10 the slaugh-
| ter like there innocent cousins i'm the in
| terrier
You might possibly have better luck
with a young gobbler. but the young ones
are I'm TO object fear of the older. strong
or birds TO do much gObbline or strutting.
and by the time they get started May 1
will have arrived. and the game law
will have spread It's protecting mantle
over them
During the day you rest I'm the warm
spring sunshine. eating with a hunters
appetite sharpened by the ozone in the
bracing air Of these pine-clad mountains.
Pondering over the situation, you fn-
ally evolve a plan by which YOU hope 10
secure one of these wary and educated
birds
You Will not attempt 10 call but Will
wait iii you have located one aud then
fNA WIN ny " idht UP ~ IUNlllOfi VI
his line OF march and ambush him.
This is not so difficult as might be
thought, when YOU remember that the
birds nearly always travel on the very
backbone OF the spur or ridge and un-
less frightened or there attention Is
attracted by something they will contin-
tinualy move toward tho higher ground.
where they can hear and see distinctly.
SHOOTING THE WILD TURI<EY.f
At dawu the next morning you are In
very nearly the same place YOU were the
morning before But The wind is in the
east, and II is 1870 O'Clock before YOU hear
a gObble. The bird is somewhere beyond
the next mountain spur You break into
run and get as close 10 the top OF II
AS YOU dare
soon comes another gobble and YOU find
You must stu cross another little ridge.
After some difficulty you find a cross,ra-
vine and gain the next ridge, secure from
observation.
Some little time elapses. and then the
turkey gobbles startingiy close and you
,siW hhoW tnat ne Is coming M mat next
rldge' only few hundred yards away.
You SIT down in front of n large tree,
anu scarcely have YOU become composed
when that gobble comes rafting forth not
hundred yards away Now your heart
beats like trip hammer Minutes seem
like hours He has gone the other way?
No; d, gabbles again, still closer and the
next instant his head and neck appear
over the rise.
Therc he stops fun so yards away You
sit there I'm agony and excitement. He
must see you, for he scans everything.
and there you are in plain sight. Now
his gaze rests on YOU steadily. surely
you are discovered. But no. With a
shake Of his head he comes on. then
stops, and struts. Tightly YOU grin your
gun. Again he advances. this time 10
within 80 yards. Then. as he struts and
for the moment cannot use his eyes TO adj
yantase on account OF his feathers. you
jump TO your feet and run ten yards be-
fore the big fe+iew can discover yea. -atld
get we'll started in flight