. Outing. ypressSwamp in Florida. Here their environ-ment protects them. In the dry season 13 4 THE OUTING MAGAZINE the turkeys scatter over the open prairieswhere they are not easily these are covered with water thatrises to the hunters knees, above fath-omless mud in which he might disappearentirely, they gather in the thick woodsof the hummocks. On one of these almost unapproach-able oases is a recently established grape-fruit plantation. The owner of thesethree hundred acres has forbidden thekilling of turkeys on his grounds. The lonesome-proof or constitutional wan-derers.
. Outing. ypressSwamp in Florida. Here their environ-ment protects them. In the dry season 13 4 THE OUTING MAGAZINE the turkeys scatter over the open prairieswhere they are not easily these are covered with water thatrises to the hunters knees, above fath-omless mud in which he might disappearentirely, they gather in the thick woodsof the hummocks. On one of these almost unapproach-able oases is a recently established grape-fruit plantation. The owner of thesethree hundred acres has forbidden thekilling of turkeys on his grounds. The lonesome-proof or constitutional wan-derers. One day, as I rested on a log,watching a flock of turkeys which wasstrolling fearlessly about a lot of labor-ers, the boss of the gang, a weazenedold man with an unfamiliar face, satdown beside me. We talked of the plan-tation, its history and its prospects, itswork and its workmen, and then, as abunch of turkeys came near us I re-marked: It would be wicked to killwild birds that are as friendly as AT FIRST THEY TURNED INQUIRING EYES UPON THE CAMERA WHEN THE SHUTTER CLICKED. Indians, who often visit his place, scru-pulously respect the prohibition; whitehunters dont poach on the domain, be-cause of its inaccessibility and the cer-tainty of detection; while the negroes,who work in that isolated field, prefernot to incur the twenty-five dollar pen-alty, the sure enforcement of whichmeans involuntary servitude for an in-definite period. The plantation is a sanctuary for ne-groes to whom its seclusion is advantage-ous while its white employees are either Most as bad as shootin turkeysfrom their roost at Skeleton Creek?he asked. I nearly fell off the log. A full gen-eration had passed since I had huntedand camped with this man on the In-dian-infested, buffalo-covered prairies ofthe Indian Territory. He had remind-ed me of a day when I had vainly trierlto stalk some wild turkeys on the prairieand of a night when he had led me un-der the trees where the turkeys roostedand in
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