Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-02-27
PRESIDENT HIS GUEST.
Old Negro Gave MIR. Roosevelt
a Hunting Lesson.
PLANNED WILD TURKEY SHOOT.

When They Went Out For the Came,
the Chief Magistrate Was Lectured
For Shooting at First Bird-Enter-
tanned Him With Corn Dodgers,
Ham, Eggs and ButtermiIk. !
A story of President Roosevelt has
reached Washington from Quantico.
About a month ago President Roose-
velt, DR.. Rixey and party left Washing
ton on board the Dolphin for q duck
hunt along the Potomac, Chesapeake
bay and Quantico creek.
On their return trip to Washington
the party stopped for awhile at Guam
tico for a hunt IN land, say the St
Louis Republic. Late one afternoon,
while the president and DR.. RiXey were
| returning tired and hungry to the Dol
phin, the sight of a diminutive log cab
in situated on the border of the woods.
| with a thin column of blue smoke ris-
ing from the chimney, suggested to the
mind of the president that he would
like to eat an old time southern "snack"
and that in all probability just such a
COu1o NC SCSA1So 14OA4 IaS hANNS
or inmates Of the cabin aforesaid.
CDR. Rixey,' he said, turning to tbs
physician, "if there is anything to eat
in that cabin I'm going to have it. Let's
try our luck over there"
So the two directed their steps to-
ward the cabin, the presidents mind
dwelling on recollections Of fare that
he had eaten during hunting excursions
in the west.
A knock on the door of the cabin
summoned it's solitary inmate, a vener-
able negro. The president told him that
both he and DR.. RiXey We're very hun
CRY and that they wanted something
to eat, and the old negro, with charac-
teristic hospitality, set before them a
painful OF corn dodgers, some bacon and
ham and a half dozen or more exceed
ingly greasy fried eggs, for all of which
he offered many apologies, saying that
he was ''pow'ful pore" and that the
food he offered was not "sech ez yall
been used to eatin'."
He felt treasured, however, when the
+! president told him that the o was
quite to his liking and still more so
when he say his strange guests fall to
and eat like schoolboys. Finishing thelr
meal, the president asked the old negro
whether he had my buttermilk, and,
when the latter replied that he had "a
heap of it," the president sent word to
the Dolphin, summoning the rest OF the
party, and on their arrival at b hut
all hands INDUCED in a regular butter.
milk feast. This tickled the old negro
immensely.
While the president and his party
were discussing several quarts Of but
termilk the conversation turned on the
subject of wild turkeys. the old negro
declaring hat there "wuz a leap OF
'em around dis place."
The result of this conversation was
that the president resolved to hunt tur
key then and there. The old negro lee
the way into the woods and dropped 9
handful Of corn here and there and
then initiated the wild turkey call. H
told the president not to shoot the frs
one because the others would then ruI
off. The president saw a fine gobble1
and could not resist the temptation, 81
blazed away and blew it to pieces.
4. The old negro lectured b presiden
for running the gobbler and spelling thu
hunt.
The president was SO pleased witt
his foresight that he asked some Ques
tons about other things and found tn
old negro was intelligent. The upsho
Of the matter is that the old negro /
today working in the government print
ing Office as general utility man at
salary of $50 per month.
He declares that such luck does no
as a general thing strike ordinary MOI
tails this side of paradise and is yer,
happy.