The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-24

The well known tendency of the dis ciples of Izack Walton to enlarge on the results of their indulgence in the piscator- ial art has it's counterpart in the iol- lowers of Nimrod, for, as it is always the heaviest fish that slips the hook on one hand, it is always the largest deer, that gets away on the other.
 Recently a party of expert hunters took a trip to Greene county, Alabama to en- joy a weeks hunt at that point The party included Judge John Mcqueen, Col. Jim Smiley. Maj Ernest Redd. Capt. Gus Lee, Sergt Ben Mcdonald and Corpl. W. A. Lindsay. They pitched their tents at "Dalas Hide" place made famous by the traders of former days, when coon skins were the medium of exchange.
 On their return they told marvellous stories of the large amount of game that had fallen before their trusty rifles, but, as a matter of fact they forgot to bring it home for an ordinary game bag was sufficiently large to carry the "spoils' brought back by the doughty hunters.
 According to the statement of Judge McQueen, which was authenticated by the rest of the bunch, the quarry slaughtered during the weeks hunt was: deer, 16 wild turkeys, 80 quail 100 rabbits, 42 duck, 23 geese, S9 squirrels and about 1000 other birds and small animals of every kind and species. And to prove they were not ex- aggerating, when Gus Lee added to the above bobtailed giraffe, a squint eyed elephant, the bunch called him down, and said they wanted the truth and nothing but the truth.
 However, when Dr. Black and George Edwards said they were from Missouri" all of the game the party had to show was 6 quail, rabbits. with the scurvy, 2 red headed duck, bandy legged snipe, taii- less coon and muskrats.
 Dock Black looked at the game" for fully minute. then said: 'T don't know which is the sorriest, the bag or the bunch of near sports, who call them selves hunters; about the only thing they can successfully hunt is a drink.
 Let's go, George. this is no place for us.p and casting a look Of whitening scorn on the hunters and their measly game. Doc and his friend departed. It must not be inferred from the above that the party did not have big time, for such is not the case. Like all true sportsmen they carried a goodly supply | of eatables with them, from sow bosom 10 sweitzer cheese Also variety of liquids, including German mild oil of joy and em- balmng fluid.
 Immediately on reaching camp they went into permanent organization and elected Judge Mcqueen as chief of the camp.
 1 The honor of killing the first game fell to Ben McDonald. He shot nondescrip' bird about the size of an English sparrow The way Ben bragged about it one woulc have imagined he had killed golder winged eagle.
 When it was cleaned and dressed Ii could easily have been cooked in the shel of an English walnut, so John McQeeer decided to convert it into homeopathic soup" the principal ingredients of whicf are cold water. hot water and more water
 He placed the bird in a skillet with two gallons of water. When it boiled dowf to a quart he added two gallons more | To this he added a pound of medicate' axlegrease and a package of Pyle's pear lline But Johns efforts were in vain, fo the ungratefu bunch would have none O it. saying they were entirely satisfied witi the smell.
 Jim Smiley would have got deer onl, for the fact that the deer nearly got him Coming nnawares across magnincen
 stag, he fired point blank at 1t and missed The deer chased him about mile, when he managed to scramble ul a tree It was a shame to waste tn Language Jim used while up in that tree I with the stag below standing with hi feet on Ji.n's rifle; after about two hour the buck trotted off and the dought' colonel made his way back to camp head quarters
 Gus Lee rounded up wampus cat, ant after using all his ammunition in his en deavors to shoot it. finally drove 1t ou on a fancn tree that extended oyer small lake. Gus clubbed his rifle an
 "cooned it, along the tree and just as h raised his rife to soak MT. Wampus hi
 foot slipped and he fell into the lake
 The splash he made was terrific, but |
 was not circumstance to the yell h
 emitted when he struck the icy waters Save mn save.' he yelled. Just the