Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-10
PRESIDENT His GUEST.
Old Negro Gave Mr.. Roosevelt
a Hunting Lesson.
PLANNED WILD TURKEY SHOOT.

When They Went Out For the Game
the Chief Magistrate Was Lectured
For Shooting Mt First Bird-Enter-
tanned Him with Corn Dodgers,
Ham, Eggs a md Buttermilk.
A story of President Roosevelt has
reached Washington from Quantico
About month ago President Roose
welt, DR. RiXey and party left Washing
on on board the Dolphin for duck
hunt along the Potomac, Chesapeake
)ay and Quantico creek.
On their return trip to Washington
he party stopped for awhile at Guam.
leo for a hunt on land, says the st.
louis Republic. Late one afternoon,
while the president and DR.. Rixey were
returning tired and hungry to the Dol
5hin. the sight of dimnutive log cab
IN situated on the border of the woods.
with thin column Of blue smoke ris
ing from the chimney, suggested to The
mind of the president that he would
Ike to eat an old time southern smack"
md that in all probability just such .
neal could be secured from the INN
" inmates Of the cabin aforesaid
"Dr. RiXey." he said, turn :, to the
physician, "if there is any Ing to eat
n that cabin I'm going to have it. Let's
~ our luck over there"
Co tho t1ro liraotoA thnir etane y,
'ard the cabin. the presidents mind
welling OH recollections of fare that
h. had eaten during hunting excursions
il the west.
A knock on the door of the cabin
summoned its solitary inmate, vener.
ole negro. The president told him that
bth he and DR.. Rixey were very hun.
~ and that they wanted something
I eat, and the old negro, with charac.
tristic hospitality, set before them a
Inful of corn dodgers, some bacon and
Inn and half dozen or more exceed
Ugly greasy fried eggs for all of which
offered many apologies, saying that
b was 'pow.,ful pore" and that the
fod he offered was not "sech ez vail
ben used to eatin'."
He felt treasured, however, when the
resident told him that the food was
Qite to his liking and still more so
wen he saw his strange guests fall to
al eat like schoOlboys. Finishing their
zeal, the president asked the old negro
Mether he had anr buttermilk, and |
wen the latter replied that he had "a
zap of it," the president sent word to |
to Dolphin, summoning the rest of the I
lrty. and on their arrival at the hut !
hands INDUCED in regular butter
nix feast. This tickled the old negro
Immensely.
While the president and his party
Nre discussing several quarts Of but.
tdnilk the conversation turned on the
s)ject of wild turkeys, the old negro
d,laring that there "wuz a heap Of
"a around dis place"
he result of this conversation was
tit the president resolved to hunt tur.
kr then and there. The old negro led
Il way into the woods and dropped a
hadful of corn here and there and
tin initiated the wild turkey call. He
TO the president not to shoot the first
OF because the others would then run
of The president saw fine gobbler
al could not resist the temptation, SO
bled away and blew it to pieces.
he old negro lectured the president
foruning the gcbbler and spelling the
hut.
lie president was so pleased with
hi&oresight that he asked some cues.
tbs about other things and found the
olmegrO was intelligent The upshot
of le matter is that the old negro ia
toy warking in the government print.
inloliice as general utility man at a
sally of $50 per month.
declares that such luck does not
as general thing strike ordinary NOR.
talahis size Of paradise and Is very
haV.