The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-05

TO tell many OF my most interesting
experiences, unless I am sure Of my
company Among friends like your
selves It Is another matter. ain
minded therefore. to tell you of
another rather ingenious expedient
that | used not so far away as Persia,
but right Mt home here.
II was out hunting with P.kas and
had used up all my shot. though I still
had some powder left. when the dog
pointed fine covy. ! had only n
moment to decide. Quickly 1 loaded
with powder. sharpened my ramrod,
thdust it In. flushed the birds waited
TIL they were in line. and fred There
We're seven birds In the covey When
l went to see what execution 1 had
done, I found the entire seven neatly
spitted on tho ramrod. carried my
game home that way and had 1t put
right over the fire and served en- bro
Ghetto.
Shortly after that had another
experience that demanded sudden in
gcnuity, ! came unexpectedly on a
black fox. 1t would have been a thou
sand pitics to damage the wonderful
pei, with n bullet. The beast was
standing quite still beside n great oak
Again ! had a happy thought. 1 re-
membered that i had put a big nail
into my pocket to repair shelter hut
IN the forest. ranmed 1t into my
gun Instead Of bullet, aimed very
carefully and succeeded in accomplish
m ho
nailed to the oak by his tail. Then
took my dog whip and lathered him
till lie could boar it no longer and
finally slipped out OF his skin and ran
for his Ito
You laugh! Yet consider that, after
all. 1t was due TO the lucky circum-
stance of my having a nall in my
pocket. / was less lucky few years
ago when stumbled across fine stag
when had neither shot nor nall All
/ had In my hand was a fstful OF
cherry pits, for 1 had just been eating
that fruit. Well. I couldn't let that
noble stag go without an attempt so
] loaded the stones into the gun, fired
straight at his forehead and--the stag
| looked at me ironically and walked
| quietly away
| 1T was quite Joke on mo. for OF
course people got wind OF It, In fact,
! after q couple Of years was so tired
or having some Fellow hunters offer
me handful OF cherry pits that I
hated the very name OF cherries Then
| 1t happened that the same party OF
us hunted In the same district. Sud
denly "a mighty stag broke cover
and came straight ut us. What was the
| surprise of my companiOns TO SEQ that
| he had cherry tree ten feet high be-
| tween his antlers! ] laid him low and
. thus had my roast and my dessert
secured by ono shot
| Il did not have oven cherry pits
| few days later when met n maddened
! old boar, which charged me at once
| ] sprang for a young birch and had
+, just managed to pull my legs ont of
! harms way when the furious brute
| struck the tree. and with such force
that hig tushce went into the trunk
az ono aide and rrotruded from the
other.
II saw my opportunity. slid down
| picked up heavy stone and clinched
| the points Of the tushes. Then ! walk
ed homo at my ease, went to bed and
lraturncd with n rife and cart next
morning after breakfast. The boar
wcighcd 300 pounds.
/ my tho way, you will have wondered
tl,nt ! have succeeded IN bending a
boaf's tUHliea n. ST they were iron nails
! Tbiu WAS not poYnihlo until after had
J battered ihoni Win the stone til they
j WGrr ihrouHhly heated and thus he :
cntno soft enough to bend.
i II fnf another somewhat interest
| Ing rEUsrfrBcE with boar a few years
lag0,. wna watching for game when a