. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . f this trap, or turkey pen, was duga ditch perhaps two feet deep, and the same in width,running straightway into the thicket where the turkeyswere in the custom of roosting, for a distance of twentyfeet or more. This ditch was carried underneath theside of the pen, where was an opening hardly morethan large enough for one turkey to pass was scattered along the whole length of theditch, and thus was the trap set. The turkeys, on finding the trail of corn, wouldfollow hurriedly along, like the gluttons they are, withthe idea
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . f this trap, or turkey pen, was duga ditch perhaps two feet deep, and the same in width,running straightway into the thicket where the turkeyswere in the custom of roosting, for a distance of twentyfeet or more. This ditch was carried underneath theside of the pen, where was an opening hardly morethan large enough for one turkey to pass was scattered along the whole length of theditch, and thus was the trap set. The turkeys, on finding the trail of corn, wouldfollow hurriedly along, like the gluttons they are, withthe idea of coming upon a larger hoard, and thus passthrough into the pen. Once inside they were trappedsecurely, for the wild turkey holds his head so highthat he can never see the way out through a holewhich is at a level with his feet. 94 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN It was a most ingenious contrivance, and on thefirst morning after it had been set at night, we had • - JSji^ •** -*••»£_ J1?-V ».•- ^^ j-Xt,^ * *^^^*fc-^-j^V ~ mt. -. • •, • «ffl« -. fifty plump fellows securely caged, when it was onlynecessary to enter the trap by crawling through the top,and kill them at our leisure. It may be asked how we made shift to cook such athing as a turkey, other than by boiling it in a kettle,and this can be told in very few words, for it was asimple matter after once you had become accustomedto it. A CRUDE KIND OF CHIMNEY First you must know, however, that when our housesof logs had been built, we had nothing with which to A CRUDE KIND OF CHIMNEY 95 make a chimney such as one finds in London. Wehad no bricks, and although, mayhap, flat rocks mighthave been found enough for two or three, there was nomortar in the whole land of Virginia with which to fastenthem together. Therefore it was we were forced to build a chimneyof logs, laying it up on the outside much as we had thehouse, but plentifully besmearing it with mud on theinside, and chinking the crevices with moss and clay. W
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