Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-16

1t is necessary to take out a license
IN Maine, the same as in Wisconsin,
to shoot game, and any person who
expects even to shoot cats on back
fence, fOrtifes himself with a license,
for fear he will be arrested, for cats
are always in season, everywhere,
and Wisconsin cat hunters had bet
ter see that they have license. The
other day woman IN Maine took
out license as hunter, and con-
sternatlon seized the male hunters,
and they will not go to the woods
until she has shot herself. In fact
the state game warden telegraphed
the news to all parts of the state
that a woman had taken out a Il
cense, and requested the hunters
to keep out of the woods until she
had got through shooting. There
i are women who can shoot fairly
we'll, at the trap, but when they
show up at the bird shooting tour
naments the the men instinctively
get behind something while the
woman is on deck with a gun. They
know there is no particular danger,
except in front of the gun, but
woman with a shotgun is always
turning around at a critical time,
with her gun cooked, to ask some
body if her hat is on straight, SO
men who are not heavily insured,
had rather get behind something
when Hammer toes the mark. A
young lawyer who is great sport
with the shotgun was telling two
or three years ago about teaching
his young wife to shoot, so she
could go with him on his hunting
trips, and a man who used to hear
him talk about the fun he would
have when she got so she could
shoot, met him the other day, TAX
ing his gun into a gun store, to
have it got ready for the opening
day1of the season, and said to him.
|
s'Hello, going hunting, are you? I
suppose your wife is going along.
remember you told me couple
of years ago you had bought her a
sixteen guage shotgun. I suppose
she can shoot all around you, ehs'' 4
Eyes, she has shot all around me,
and hit.me a couple of times" said
the young lawyer shut she is not
| going with me. shall sneak off
alone, on the pretense of having a
case in court at st. Paul"
s. sWhat's the matterg Don't she
Ike hunting9 I thought she was
carried away with the sport" s
Say, old man." said the young
lawyer, looking solemn, now this
must be in strict confidence, mind
you. My wife would be dangerous
with a gun, if she was in the middle
OF a forty-acre field, alone. She has
no more idea of the danger of
shotgun than she would of broom.
The first thing ! taught her was to
always point the gun away from
herself. She was the dearest thing
in the world to me, and I didn't
want her to shoot herself, but by
Jinks, she points it at me, and
everybody that is in sight, and
laughs about it, and never seems
to think there is any danger. The first
time we went out shooting chickens
he,fredI1nto the flock and killed one,
or scared 1t to doath, and she dropped
the gun, ran after the bird, stepped
on the trigger and the other barrel
went off, shot the heel off my shoe,
and filled one of the horses with
birdshot, and the team ran away.
1t cost me sixty dollars for the
wagon. Then she claimed every
bird shot, for a week. She has no
idea of distance, and will shoot at
bird as far as she can see it. l left
her one day in the field, and started
off to have quiet life, and | scared
up bird, and she plugged at it,
with me between her and the bird,
and she filled my canvass coat-tail
with No. s shot, and when I yelled
to her she fired the other barrel and
I had to lay down behind log or
she would have been firing yet. I
tried to scold her. when dared get
near her, about being careless, and
she laughed, and 'looked SO sweet
that I just looked at her and adj
mired her, until II found her gun
was loaded and at full cock, and
pointed at my head, with her dear
little finger on the trigger. I had to
quit hunting with her or she would
have been a widow before this. I
do not want to hurt her feelings
by telling her I amcafraid of her,
but l suffer from nervous prostra-
ton when she has the gun in her
bopJ o,d co +oI1 bor tho chOOf1nor