. Outing. e from which I emerged some hours later turned away from me and lowered his mud-bedraggled and worn out, body and head. Then I cautiously laid my hand spirit. I leaned, disheartened, against on the rifle beside me and slowly turn- ■ 0 ! j! -. ? ■t; - r I HB ■ ■Jp fj.;,; f f - .: $ •; ■]■ ! % , ■ ( * [ . •■ 0J# -., Hif SB / fj :• - EmKIJH i * ■t ,\ 1 1 • — THE HABITAT OF THESE BIRDS IS SURROUNDED BY MOATS, SENTINELED ANDGUARDED BY FIERCE WARDERS. a fallen tree. For half an hour I restedfor the coming interminable tramp backto camp and the humiliating arrival,empty-handed, when suddenl
. Outing. e from which I emerged some hours later turned away from me and lowered his mud-bedraggled and worn out, body and head. Then I cautiously laid my hand spirit. I leaned, disheartened, against on the rifle beside me and slowly turn- ■ 0 ! j! -. ? ■t; - r I HB ■ ■Jp fj.;,; f f - .: $ •; ■]■ ! % , ■ ( * [ . •■ 0J# -., Hif SB / fj :• - EmKIJH i * ■t ,\ 1 1 • — THE HABITAT OF THESE BIRDS IS SURROUNDED BY MOATS, SENTINELED ANDGUARDED BY FIERCE WARDERS. a fallen tree. For half an hour I restedfor the coming interminable tramp backto camp and the humiliating arrival,empty-handed, when suddenly my tur-key, or another, loomed up before myeyes. He was within twenty-five yardsand looked bigger than an ostrich. ing it drew a bead on the middle of thebig body of the turkey. Of course atthat short range I ought to have shotoff his head, but I might have missedand bad to carry to camp an excuse in-stead of a turkey, while a shot throughthe body could be accounted for by the. < < 20 THE OUTING MAGAZINE substitution of rods for yards in thestory at the camp-fire. Thirst andfatigue were forgotten as I picked up thebig bird and prepared to return to thecamp. It then occurred to me that Ididnt know where the camp was. Iwas troubled until I thought of the royalpalms beside it, which lifted their splen-did heads to twice the height of thesurrounding forest. The towering topsof these grand old trees were never morepleasing to me than when I caughtsight of them from a tree which I thenclimbed. As I neared the camp I heard signalshots from my companion, to which Ireplied, finding him, on my arrival,much perturbed because of my long ab-sence, coupled with his knowledge ofhow easy it was to get lost in a Floridaswamp and how unpleasant after it hadhappened. That experience has cometwice to me and in both instances I wasled astray by wild turkeys. I think thatif a balance could be struck it wouldbe found that turkeys have had quite asmuch fun with me a
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