The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-02

party was so anxious for a shot, that he, with the aid of a little silver. per- suaded the tenant to place him just at that part of the fence where the deer usually jumped over when he ran ou of the field; we soon started a splendid and very fat buck and he lost no time in clearing the fence, but not at the stand of the party who had furnished the little bribe to the tenant very much to his chagrin the deer was shot by another member of the party. ran short distance and was killed in a small creek by sec ond shot; he proved to be the fattest deer the writer ever saw, and the meat was tender and juicy. This deer was not so large as another buck that was killed at another time in that section of the country, this last one weighed 1S0 pounds after his entrails were removed and after he had dried out two or three days; this buck was killed in the drive and ran over quarter of a mile after having both hind legs broken and when we reach him he was standing on his two front legs fighting off the dogs.
 We remained on our camp hunt about four or five days and killed five deer that we recovered, be-
 
 hold of and finished after we had wounded it.
 Two On Final Day
 About the last day of our hunt the weather was very warm and the drivers with dogs thirsty and hot, ran two deer by my stand. They came from behind me. and from a direction from which l was not eX- pecting deer. however 1 shot one Of them. but did not bring him down at once The drivers came up with sne tired dogs, and although the writer
 insisted that he had probably wound ed the deer severely and that If fol- lowed, he could be captured, they de- clined tos follow hirn.--in fact 1t seemed impossible to urge the dogs to go on. few days later the tenant found the dead deer. not far from where it was shot and the writer still has the handsome horns of this buck.
 It was In this same section of the country that the writer. while on a deer stand on another occasion. killed fine turkey gobbler; it was a scratch" shot. the writer was in a field. About 35 yards east of him was body of woods and a rail fence ran along the edge of the timber. the drivers and dogs were in the tifn- Der on the other side of the fen<; when the writer glanced up he saw a wild turkey running near the fence. and on the other side of it from him. He had to think quick in order to get 6 shot, running his eyes along the fence ahead of the turkey he saw a gap caused by broken rail. and as the turkey cov- cred the opening he let fly at him with buck shot. two of which hit him but the most serious wound was d broken wing, the dogs soon came up. and although the turkey lodged about and tried to run off. the dogs caught him. He proved to be a very large gobbler. weighing about 14 pounds when dressed, the weather turning very cold. so that the turkey was frozen before getting him home, and when cooked was as fine as any piece of game the writer ever en- joyed.
 The following Is a list of the names of most of those who used to take part in these deer hunts. There may have been few others whose names l cannot recall. It will be seen that of the Is names. 12 of them have passed over the river:
 Gen. E W. Pettus. lawyer and United States senator; Gov. Joseph F. JohHston lawyer ana Inlted states senator: Charles w. Hooper, mer- chant: Major A. M. Fowlkes, super intendent $. NJ. and M railroad; pr. Joe H. Robbins. merchant; A. W. Cawthon. president ~Cawthon Cole man Drug company: w. F. Boyd lawyer: w B. Shields. planter; W. P. Armstrong. president City Ma. tional bank. Selma: Jack Bethea. planter: Richard keebie. merchant. W. NJ. Weaver. planter.
 Still living: w. r. Molett. planter, W. H. Craig. planter; w. R. Nelson. lawyer and president Loan Company of Alabama: H. c. Armstrong. presl- dent City National bank, Selma.