. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . ing, and drove forwardthe game instead of bringing them to a stand. The wholeflock resumed their flight, leaving about five stragglersamong the bushes. Three struggled in convulsions ofagony; two had fallen to the ground, shot dead. SOMETHING ABOUT THE TURKEY. 47 From this moment Iheld it as proved thatnothing was easier thanto kill a turkey; his enor-mous size and lumberingflight both contribute torender him the certainprey of the sportsman;hut if the wound is notm
. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . ing, and drove forwardthe game instead of bringing them to a stand. The wholeflock resumed their flight, leaving about five stragglersamong the bushes. Three struggled in convulsions ofagony; two had fallen to the ground, shot dead. SOMETHING ABOUT THE TURKEY. 47 From this moment Iheld it as proved thatnothing was easier thanto kill a turkey; his enor-mous size and lumberingflight both contribute torender him the certainprey of the sportsman;hut if the wound is notmortal, if he is struckonly in the wings, theturkey, instead of losinghis time, like most of thegallinacese, in strugglingon the ground, escapesimmediately, and his gaitis so rapid that, unlessyou possess an excellentdog, he is soon beyondthe reach of the turkey is hit inthe neck, throat, orbreast, he is dead; whileif the shot strike him inthe middle of the back,he runs again to such adistance that he is nearlyalways lost. The dogs follow up thescent of the turkeys forabout a mile. I haveseen some American dogs,. PERCHED UPON THE LIANAS. 48 ADVICE GRATIS TO SPORTSMEN. trained to the sport, which, when they come upon thetrail of a flock, set out silently on a signal from theirmaster; but, on arriving in sight of the birds, theybark incessantly, with the view of terrifying them, andbeen making them fly in all directions. Once they havebeen separated in this manner, in calm warm weather,the sportsman^s task is easy: bringing down his bii^ds oneafter another, as quickly as he can load and fire his gun,-he hands them over to his negro attendant to carry. Turkeys generally live in the middle of the grassysavannahs which stretch along the border of the early morning and in the evening they are to be foundnear the marshes, sheltered by the tall herbs, and scratch-ing up the ground in search of worms and insects; but atnoon, and during the night, they return towa
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