The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-03-11

lunch basket. He handed tie boy a
large chicken sandwich AMI a hunk
of chocolate cake. The boy took one
in each hand, shifted them carefully
over. licked them with Ills tongue at
different places, and item swallowed
each one at a gulp.
All was ready and tie hunters
With Tins dog-boy or boy-dog,
whichever you prefer, passed into
the scrub oak On tie northerly side
Of tie road, the boy running under
or leaping over the scrubby growth
with ease end without noise A little
tc the left of an old trail could be
seen patch CT weeds heavy with
seed, and short bushes bearing small
brownish berries, and toward these
tie boy went. Suddenly he stcpped,
came tt point, and held both hands
into tie air with three fir.ger3 Of each
extended.
The hunters drew near and the
boy stopped AMI slid along under
the bushes. Up went Il rec birds,
two # which were killed, ard in a
minute three more went IN but only
one fell, Colonel CREDIBLE having
missed. The boy picked up the
three dead birds, and was off Ii the
direction taken by tho:e thai had es-
capped. AgGin he stopped, aid five
fingers were seen sticking Up out of
the bush. At the given wcrd, the
boy slid into tne clump and Up rose
five birds. They few so close that
Colocel Grib5ie, firing both barrels,
got four of them, a"d Charlie nit tie
fifth otter it was apparently safe.
The direction CT tie hurt IVES
ten changed toward a deep wooden
ravi2e which serves as az outlet for
a spring, and the bo- entered the
r@yine with the ste2,tt and silence Of
a MoEican. Slowly he went, emitting
the ground and casting his eyes
about in apparent perHlCXity. Sud
denly his hands shot into tho cir, and
re howled Man! Nan! Mani" AT
the scme ins. mt 2 br-ilt5'-t gobblor,
hGlf-runnirg and half-nyiIg, made
hi3 way rapidly up {, e opposite bank,
but the hunters were sclo22 CROUCH. |
and VIXEN tho shot rang out he big
bird futtereC in the bushes ard tried
to hide himself witt - mortal
wounds.
do you krow what's fact?"
asked Mr.. McLano, after tEcy had |
hung the prize up to bleed Il kill
ed tEat turkey"
"Do you know what's a fact?"
asked Colonel Gribble, in reply. Il
iilled that turkey too"
Correct they were, we nrpe, and
1t any rate the bird weighed four
cen pounds on Frank Blount's tested
scales late that evening.
OF course after bagging a patri-
lrchal Meleagris ga.lopavo with a
'ead, there wasn't much enthusiasm
eft for small birds, and the hunters
Concluded to retrace their stops in
he direction of the car, hunting as
hey went. But Tins boy wasn't
eady to go. He was smiling
round the trunks of some live oak Z
reeS and after a bit began making
rantic points into the air and utter :
ng, TIA! Ia! Tai" Colonel Gribble .
an down and got there just in time :
0 see two large fox squirrels jump :
1g from one live oak to another, .
ut, as they swung in the branches .
G got them both, and they fell .
cavity to the ground. The boy dis :
ppeared after he had retrieved the .
luirrels, and made his way to the
lace where the ravine opens out in .
Shell creek. Here he freed a rae
BON on tall cabbage palm and. :
18th his arms around the trunk, be- .
m TO repeat over and over the full
st of words, EXPLANATIONS, and ad- !:
ctiyes in his vocabulary. The men :;
ent down and killed the animal, :;
I'd declared the hunt was over for ;:
at day. Reaching the car, they ::
uck a five dollar bill in the boys :!
outh, thanked him for his services, ::
Id indicated that he could now re- !:
IN to his fathers. cabin, and away !:
trOtted. !:
Naturally, there was great excite !:
emit when the hunters reached town ::
d related their remarkable ex- :.
rience with the boy pointer Pro
'sor Franciscus, whose researches -
biology, zoology, and anthro- :.
logy, are known the world over :.
d who has not yet ended his stay =
south Florida, was especially in ::
rested, and in reply to many anx- !,
is inquirers, he gave 1T as his :
inion, without of course a knowl- !.
ge of all the facts, that the boy ::
Us not possessed of pointers ].
,actories, but that either he was Z
irked at birth or had acquired the !:
per sense of smell through practice ::
d association with dogs. !.
He stated, also that a deficiency in ::
e number of senses would augment I:
e power or activity of the ones re- !
aiming, and that this might ac- ::
unit in part for the aCuteness of !: