The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-09-24
GAME NEAR CITY.
Hunters plod Many Miles And Find the
Birds at Home.

Two youthful nimrods, of uncertain
age, like the lady OF unknown summers.
went hunting over the hills from AS
torR on Sunday last to see ii the re-
ports OF this section as a hunting
ground were true One OF them carried
u high power rifle and the other carried
a long'winded shotgun, with plenty Of
ammunition so as not to miss anything
that happened in sight,
Taking the road TO oluey they tramp.
ed along under the oNr'powering rays
from old Sol, to the music Of the chica-
dees, who mpertiuentT poked fun at
them from the bushes lining the road.
The perspiration poured from their
manly brows as they gazed keenly down
the road in search of stray "bar," or
deer
Nothing happened, however, except the
everlasting chirp OF the small birds and
the occasional squeek OF a chipmonk.
Te tall trees scraped in the light breeze
which was blowing and there was an
air OF solitude over il all, the chug, chug
of the plodding feet Of the hunters
breaking the silence steadily.
"Whew," said one of the ramrods,
'.isnt IL warms How far do YOU think
We have Gomez
Il should say about Is miles at least, .
was the tired response, u don't see any
game, Everything must have gone to
Sleep
well. let's plug along little further
and We may scare up something
The hunters proceeded along the road
for several miles without seeing any
thing but blueiay, which made noise
enough to warrant its death, But the
tootsore plodders had lost interest in
finding anything along the road. so they
decided to cut across the woods to the
pipe line road. about two miles distant
Now neither OF them had any idea OF
what the underground in an Oregon for
est is like, or they might have hesitatei.
But they started in with the expecta'
ton that the vegetation would fade
away after they had proceeded little
distance,
Tripping over the dense unierbrush,
getting scratched by the berry bushes,
falling and stumbling into holes in the
thick moss. they tumbled along. They
had not gone far before they forgot
what they had come after. The main
point was to get somewhere. and pretty
soon. as the heat was Oppressive" The
cobwebs and insects added to the pleas
ure of the outing, as the newspapers
would say, and the slough of despond
was an easy matter compared tol
trmping virgin woods in Clasop
county.
After two hours tramping, the two
nimrois managed to fall into the pipe
line roadway, where they lay exhausted
for several minutes. Even the dog they
had along could not stand up without
help. A refreshing drink from one Of
the air holes of the pipe which furnishes
water for Astoria, helped all parties
and another search for
game was started, but with despond-
snt tread.
After several hours permabulating and
'peculating the hunters began to snoot
1t every tree which was white enough to
'ecord the place where it was hit. This
lad more stimulation to it, and it was
lept up all the way back to the hill
lear the waterworks. All the ammuni-
ion for the rifle had vanished, leaving
undry holes in trees along the route.
)nly one charge for the shotgun was
eft, and that had bad cap
The hunters were digging for home,
Utterly disgusted with the sport, after
Walking eight or ten miles, when sud.
enly coyey of about forty quail start
d up from the bushes, quite close to
own. The one shot left brought down
me of the birds, and then the nimr0ds
ad the supreme pleasure of seeing
'lenty of game without anything to hit
t with. 1t was the last straw, and
heir feelings were too deep for utter
nee as'they struck the road leading to
street.
Suddenly three large pheasants flew
cross the road and lit in tree fifty
eet away. The birds gazed curiously
t the pair with the empty guns. Lay
ng the guns aside the nimrods attacked
he birds with stones, and after much
and strong language they
damaged to make the game fly away.
The moral Of the whole thing is that
7 you desire to shoot, stay at home, for
he game lives near the city, same as
L. Goh;n,, kbrn,,nh a hnla In tho aide.