. Outing. trees where the turkeys roostedand in sheer desperation and weariness of TURKEY TRACKS IN THE BIG CYPRESS i5 spirit I had shot a few out of a tree thatwas filled with them. On the plantation, groups of younggobblers and hen turkeys with theirbroods walk freely and fearlessly amongthe workmen and they have often comewithin reach of my hand as, in the shadeof a water oak, I sat idly on a they kept wary eyes upon the sus-picious character who neither slung anax nor grubbed with a mattock, andwere more distrustful of a slight motion suspend his pursuit for the day. Some-times,
. Outing. trees where the turkeys roostedand in sheer desperation and weariness of TURKEY TRACKS IN THE BIG CYPRESS i5 spirit I had shot a few out of a tree thatwas filled with them. On the plantation, groups of younggobblers and hen turkeys with theirbroods walk freely and fearlessly amongthe workmen and they have often comewithin reach of my hand as, in the shadeof a water oak, I sat idly on a they kept wary eyes upon the sus-picious character who neither slung anax nor grubbed with a mattock, andwere more distrustful of a slight motion suspend his pursuit for the day. Some-times, when the turkeys seemed especial-ly sociable, I sought to secure their con-fidence by scattering handfuls of grainamong them, but they feared the gift-bearing Greek, and I only succeeded inimplanting distrust, by actions whichtheir inherited experience had taughtthem were of evil portent. Althoughthe Camera-man spent much time tryingto photograph turkeys on the wing, hecouldnt run fast enough to make them. IN THE DRY SEASON THE TURKEYS SCATTER OVER THE OPEN PRAIRIE, WHERE THEY ARE NOT EASILY APPROACHED. of my hand than of a shovelful of soilthrown beside them by a laborer. Theyresponded promptly to the call of a treefelled by the workmen, to seek the in-sect life to be found in its upperbranches. Though, at first, the turkeys turnedinquiring eyes upon the camera whenthe shutter clicked, it soon ceased to in-terest them, but when they observed thatthe unobtrusive steps of the Camera-manhappened always to follow their own,they became suspicious and he had to fly. They always managed to keepahead of him until they could plungeinto the dank recesses of a cypress swampwhich ended the chase. Work on the plantation began buta few years ago and even now it is onlypartially cleared, yet generations of wildturkeys have known it as a sanctuaryand within its boundaries exhibit changednatures. I hobnobbed one morning witha hen turkey and her brood and latersaw them wander out on the prairie
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