GAME IN SOU' Skoot?rig Turkeys 03 News and Lower Waceamaw Neck was iu the gentle clasp of winter. Boreas em braeed the woodland as his bride, the gaunt clutch1 that he laid everywhere on all living j things was here soft as the lover's hand when he strokes the hair of his 'lady love. Leaves had flitted slowly down, Jack Frost had conic, bat eo lightly did he breathe upon the grass that it was barely withered in December. Outside the calm bay lay smooth as a ribbon, save that now and then, when the tide turned, there was a rip pling wave sent up Waccamaw to be brushed aside by that stream with majeatio indifference. The dense green of pines became loot in live oaks on the knoll that stretohed around Fraeer's Point, and but for' rice field, dead marsh and Babbit Island, looking more sombre, there was no hint of aught but early fall. ' Turkeys had been numerous; their signs were everywhere; their calls were now and, then heard, but the. season for gobbling had not come. Somehow one does not go turkey hunt ing until the winter grows a! bit old. Why no one knows, it is the custom. This Deeember, however, Jack pro posed that we go down around the point, skirt the old reserve and drive a famous buok, marked by a curious twist On One Of hlS fen*.- trntn whinh circumstance we had a name for him. Ho was called the. "Red Buck," and to kill him was the ambition that lay in several breasts. He had been seen many times, but never: when.the hun ter was ready with gun, Jaok and I. had determined to get him and we rarely failed to got what we went after; so far tho "Bed Back" was an exception that we were eager to take out of the rule, but id vainl ' By early sunrise we had reached a point where Jack told me to dismount and wait until he ?ad skiked s small swamp. The words were hardly put of his mouth when Heritor's deep bay came down the wind, followed by one or two sharper notes from Fly; they were way up the swamp. Jack went like mad down the road, dashing out of it where it curved and the last I saw of him was when Saladin oloared a pine top, the boughs orashingagainst Jaok'e boots. The danger was that the dogs would oarry the deer across to the old reserve below, whence he wouhjl inevitably go into it and. become lost in the sea of tan gled marsh; or go. straight away to ward Goat Island j landing, in either case, where we could not reach him that day, ' My mare, Genevi?ve, was quivering in every, limb; she could not help it. Genevi?ve lov.ed a chase better than her life, but like the faithful animal ehe was, she was standing, ears* rais ed, not moving out of her tracks, de* epite tho temptation, although she was. not tied. Genevi?ve was never subjected to that humiliation; she would never hive. forgiven it; she knew her business. By and by the. dogs came down the . swamp in full cry and passed on to the left among the palmettoes where I did not care to follow, although Jack came orashiog / after like the Wild Huntsman. 1 * caught sight of him. for a few seconds and he was waving towards the bluff below me, where I eould see everything that passed and where I felt confident no deer at least had gone, but as I 'turned my eyeB the explanation canW. . An old gobbler was standing on*- the edge of the bluff, ?omc oixty or seventy yards away, looking me..over critically. I swore under my breath. There I was with those miserable buckshot in my gun and the finest gobbler I ever saw in good jrango for sixes or sevenB,vb?t buckshot, bahI Sand would have been better; at that raugo buckshot would scatter over ? ten-acre field. ;My hear^sj^^^t?: Icovere^vthat beard ?n'^^S??v.JjsViy^ he rose at the fiash and sailed off, ; I pumping buekBbot afier him from my Winchester. like Bnsaun infantry repelling a Jap :" charge./.' Not a feather was touched; t stood on tiptoe ^watching him and saw hjin come down right out in.the open rushes; by this lim? Jack had oome baok; the hounds having got away from him- and'gone up th? Neck pst of. hearing. .. ^e aslted. " >? told him I had obl*-i ??en : be gobM^ he'thereupon asid i bat Sv* or six had g?ue out into the : ashes some two hundred yasda bc ' wr. rl - tv^^yery ' buckshot shell > )Ut of my pockota and put them 'in ay saddle b^s. * 'Now. ^ome on,-' I ftid. * ^T^;ta^e'ln/a^ '? laky1 thinq toy do,'-nh $ftyoy$rl, ) h^vid*^ rH CAROLINA. a "Waccamaw Neok. , Courier. ! we had giver, him up and Saladin shot into the air with Jack, like a sky rocket. I could not blame him?even Genevi?ve wheeled with me, but as she came round she stood stock-still and I got in one barrel as he was swinging through a pine, a desperate chance, but the load landed right be tween the wings, where his neck join ed his back and I need not tell a hun ter what happened, he dropped like a partridge. Jack's retriever, 'who had been sneaking after us, now came up and that settled it; we decided to leave the horses, take Brag, the retriever, and go after the rest on foot. This was novel work to both of us; turkeys are not shot that way, as every one knows who has hunted turkeys, but this morning proved to be a record breaker all around. Both of us shot repeating shotguns and we agreed to shoot as we Bhot partridges, turn about, each, man to look after the birds on his side. We kept Brag close in and after we had passed the place where Jack said he saw them go down and had about ex hausted oar pntience, Brag spun around and came to a point; he had hardly stiffened himself when a tur key rose, quartering away from Jack and was tumbled over. Just then one 700? bcLiluI nut! uiei tue same fate. We searched those rushes for nearly o half hour before finding another ar :1 we must have gone in two feet of him from where he roso.~ Jaok. out him down before he straightened?a fine young gobbler. At the orack of the gun two hens rose and we grassed both, but one was winged and the re triever had to run her down. Just before reaching the horses another hen got up and- she fell to me?seven turkeys and all shot like partridges, as' tame a morning's work as either had ever indulged. Barring the glo rious bag, it was nothing. After we had tied them to the sad dles, giving the horses all the load t?ey wanted and more, we stopped a while to smoke and talk. By and by the dogs came baok and Jack suggest ed driving a small island in the reserve near the woods. He carried the dogs around and put them in; I waited be low. They struck soent at once and oame on,making splendid music; just as they reached the middle of the is land a peg-horn buck broke cover in twenty' yards of me and I stretched Mm; I saw nothing else. But Jaok ?ame around tho jeland swearing like a trooper; he was blowing off steam at Buoh ? rate that I could not make out the trouble, and all of ? sudden, he got non-committal. 1 "What the. diokens is the matter with yon?" tasked. "I got him, there he is." "Get the devil," Bnorted Jaok, "you turned the '?Rod Buck" by shooting that infernal kid, that measly goat." My jaw' fell; I looked at Jaok and he looked at me; the "Red Buck" had saved his antlers again, almost by a miracle. We rode sadly home, for getting,the turkeys Until we arrived it the barnyard. Brat the look! Sometime after thia found ma alone with the boatman, Caesar, (who was proud enough of his Afrioan descent to boast that he was a full-blood negro,) leepin the great swamp that forms the upper part of Sandy Island. The rivera do a tri ok here th at is unusual in America. A bioad and deep chan nel runs across from the channel of the two Pee Deco into Waeoamaw and sod is known* as Bull ; Creek, a name given it in colonial days. Part of the water of the Poe-Dee joes on in a ?ifferont channel to Georgetown, where before reaching Winyah-.Bay it is joined by Blaok River? Between Bui', Creek, the- con necting link of Waeoamaw and the Pec-Dees and Waccamaw-Pointj in the ,hay just above Georgetown, thoto are innumerable islands, the. most Qortherly of which is known as Sandy [eland from the vast sand deposits on Its southern edge. Just touching ibis ??nd ?? th? r.Wet bot^ms on -tho Wal?? saiuaw side are a dumber ' of plaata tions, abandoned 1?^ their former own ars and some of them otraed by the aegroesy The northern pari of Sandy island is swamp, subject for the most pa$?t^^ uB* of freshet. The preoiee area of ao ?^'??te survey ever having been aoad^t hut it ja-'vast, much of it im [>en?tr?ble and threaded hy Small Urea^a that admit the passage of It if&? most famous turfcey range [q.'ifcj? Southern Statesj here that no de Amerioau ,bird, c^tt rai ac It ;brood jrt>d:ui^^ >u\tl^|???g^ not leave the island until spring, com ing baok then at night to roost. Turkeys always roost over water, if it oo available, hence it is that a bun te;* with eyes and training oan follow these streams in a boat' and be able to do good work just before nightfall and sometimes even after moonrise. Bnt simple as it seems thero is re quired the finest eyesight, the most careful manoeuvring and, above all, quickness when tie game has been found. The way an old gobbler oan get out of a tree and off into impene trable gloom would amaze a man who had not seen it done; nothing living is quioker except a fish or an alligator jumping from a bank when he is "good soared." The streams over whieh they sit are sometimes too small to admit the passage of a boat and here they are reasonably secure unless some indus trious hnnter has "roosted" them, that io followed them, calling at in tervals with a bone or box until the flock rises for the trocs. When this is done the hunter comes baok way before day, calls them again and usually manages to score. Caesar and I had our share of this tedious and uncertain modo of hunt ing; aotiog on his advice I was taking to the water. In the growing duBk every object in the swamp assumed a shape strange to daylight; overhead you eould see; io front now and then we caught glimpses; once in a while a summer duck flew ouUwith a clatter; but we took no notice. On turning a dismal bend I felt the paddle touoh my legs, as the canoe slowly settled against the bank. > Straining my head I oaight Caesar's gase fixed on a oy- ] press/. Nol Yes I M-a-y-b-e, but Ij doubt it?then all doubt that was passing through mv mini? ftdsdj I'.c had ducked his head and betrayed himself; now the plump outline of the ; turkey's form beoame visible; the boat was stock still, held by tho pad dle. I drew a bead, tho finest I could get in that light, and fired my rifle at the place where neok and head joined; the turkey dropped like a bag of sand and at the crack another flew out of a tree and went sailing across the stream for the swamp ridges beyond. I pumped twice at the last one, but he went on, Caesar stoutly maintaining, however, that he was shot through. .Oar talking had disturbed others and they went the/ other way, not one orossing the stream. As the night ?'ar> ooming on we got our turkey, a fair sized gobbler. We had many miles to go, so both took a paddle and the oanoe shot swiftly through the bsyoas. As we reaohed our destina tion that night, Pompey Masyok, an old darky, met us and told Caesar of flushing a - flock jnst at sunset, in -seme tall pines by a branoh and I determined to be baok in time next morning. It turned off bitterly cold and the wind rose?ciroumotnnces both highly favorable to Work next morning, but not conducive to comfort. I slept un der a fly and woke cold, as the stars were shining next morning. It was half-past three o'clock. Caesar was out of pocket, 'but soon turned up, having gone off to get lightwood. He had GUr breakfast ready directly and then brought out from behind the blaze a coffee pot* explaining "dat gal Cindy fetch 'em last night, Moussa." I did not care to pursue the investi-, gation, having no farther interest in knowing how Caesar came by the pot of coffee?really a godsend, as by on unpardonable blunder mine bad been loft with the eoffee at the plantation. Swallowing.; breakfast without cere mony and without a minute's loss of time, we were off on foot for the place where Pompey had seen the flock, j had my .box and Caesar could yelp with a turkey bone to fool the oldest gobbler on tho range. Long before day we were at the rendez vous. By ono of thoso sudden shifts thai coast weather is famous for, there be gan to fait a slight drittle of rain, hardly more than a mist. Caesar's first attempt brought a reply-"from a pine right over us. I looked up and again sc the ; faint gleam of ths sodden sky| there Was silhouetted a gobbler, Caesar had brought my riflo and he softly handed it.to mo. I fired and that turkey shot away like he was sent from the mouth of .a cannon baok on the oak ridge. "W# git' dem* Haue so; she daid.dey-dey." This was in. a .whisper, of course; w? were both too well trained in wood craft to break cover yet. The smoke less shell made little noise and there Was nothing else to indicate onr pres ence. ' Waiting a sufficient time for the slight excitement created by the sound to die away, Caesar again began |i^a)|.to .a low';key, a few short notes with rising inflection, Sod then to waHfor an answer. Tho third trial brought re&nlfc w?th a chorus of answer ing calls and lieforo their echoes had ?id/l a gobbler flew; by and , lit in a heigbborioK pine, not thirty yards away, b,ut where he could not be Seen for th? pin? needles. CaOsir? indicated a tree to nie with his eyes right in front, where the last turkey had flown from; I jnide oat through the boughs the dit?tinet outn key bave it, this time full in the breast, and as he tumbled I grasped tho shotgun from Caesar to get our neighbor as he left the ',ree, but he did not leave. Fearing any longer to tako chanoes I made Caesar take the rifle and go around the tre?; he had not got half round when the turkey flow and I out him down. The noise of tho gun brought a hen out of the pines, sail ing by us- to tho oak ridges. I was fortunate enough to get her too. Tnis was tha last we saw of the flook; there wero more; we heard them j leaving the trees, but they all went the other way. Now I told Pouipey as we ] left oamp when he heard the shotgun tiro to let Ponto loose and in a few minutes he was leaping against ray j bosom in the ecstasy of dog bliss. He found the turkey I had first shot j about two hundred yards off, dead as j Heotor, shot through and through. Caesar insisted that we look fur ther on the oak ridge for the turkey I had shot at the night before and we found him also, that is the remains of him?a wildcat had been there just ahead of ui and regaled himself with the breakfast wo had provided. Our firing had evidently disturbed him at his meal; it was useless to utter re grets and we returned to oamp with the booty. That morning by appointment Jaok came up the river in a launch and I went aboard for a nap. I wondered, and still wonder, when the delioious nap is over and Boston, Jaok*s oook, is fixing lunoh and oof fee, how many lives have been savod, how many men made happy, how many oareoro touohed with a gleam of geld as r. result, of the association with steam lautfihes. The travel miy ho likened to an aerial voyage on I a oloud blown through the empyrean j by zephyrs to tue acoompaniment of j oelestial harps, heard far off in ether, ns angel fingers stroked their delicate j strings. j The plan this time was novel and of our own devising. ? Two old gobblers had been in the habit of going to a certain field every afternoon for a month; they were probably there in the morning also, but had only been seen in the afternoon. We had ar ranged for Pompey and Caesar to put the dogs in the run from whioh they oame and to bring down the dogs as if they were driving deer; this we thought would drive out tho turkeys and they would, nine timeo out of ten, pasB close to us. Jaok and I went to our | stands; the negroes were a mile above with the dogs. In due time the dogB opened and oame toward us in full ory, whioh at first couuded faintly down the wind and freshened into a swelling chorus that &eant > business and signified more, than turkeys. A hound broke cover above and oircled with raised bristles; no hound raises his bristles for a deer, but only for dangerous animals, and I was puzzled to know what it meant, but thought it probably a wild oat and was strain ing my eye-sight on every bush; when jnafc behind me the worm fence eraok ed and the rails came down in a heap. Before I oould think a bear rose from the dust, making straight by me. I fired before I thought, right at his stomach, but possibly, owing to the excitement,(he caught the load on one side and I was knooked down and run over with such force that it nearly knooked the sense, out of me. Bruin esoaped into, the swamp just as the hounds dashed through the broken fence, the whple pack yelping like mad. At that instant Jaok's gun cracked twice and I went hastily to him,; only to learn that he had hot seen the bear but had killed a turkey with one barrel and had fired at anoth er, but with what result he oould not tell, as the bird was in the trees. Just thon a young hound strayed from the paok and stopped suddenly. I nude my way to him and found him on a turkey, an old gobbler. That ac counted for both Jaok's birds. We held a short council of war and determined to go after the bear, as we both bad plenty of buckshot. The hounds were baying; the game was run to earth'or to a tree. Through a tangled oanebroko we pushed, with vines and briars scratching the blood [at-' every step, until just before we oamo to a sme!I run the undergrowth cleared a little and such a sight met our eyes as hunter has seldom seen. The bear was backed against a fallen tree, his front Moody and his little eyes snapping viciously; before, him iwb'of the dogs lay gasping, in death armas we came-up the paok closed again and he sent two to earth, one with bis neck broke and the other ripped up like a bank saw had struck him. Met by this terrible onslaught tho pack gave way and I emptied buck shot as fast as a Gatling gan could do it. Bruin collapsed; the range was too jplo'sp and tho smokeless powder behind tho shot was a deadlier charge than his race had yet met. But we had paid d?arly for our victory. Four dogs were dead and poor old Heotor, whose discretion was proverbial, had received a wipe tbat cut a pieco of hido from him as big as a napkin.- Hector gmjrered, however, by careful nurs ing and lived to see ma?/an eventful day after tbat. The adventure and accident broke and we returned that night to tho plantation. We found upon exami nation that my first load had torn into the bear's side without reaching tho intestines and had done little dam age; it wi\3 olumsy. work, but tho time limit upset mo?besides neith er of un dreamed of seeing bears. They were rarely met with short of Santee and tho Big Swamp in Horry County. One could go on without end telling of turkoy hunts. I have killed more than I could count up; the reader will be dismissed with this side-light on * another olasR of turkoy hunting, the best of all and one that appeals to tho true sportsman?hunting on horse back with a dog. Virst it is unforgettable how the doctor and I soared a negro out of his wits on Santeo, where we had a pen for baiting turkeys, just because there 1 was a bluff where they flew over in the grey of the morning, fed for a time on the acorns and then went back across 1 the river to the swamp. A negro had found the place and was thore ahead ( of us several mornings. The doctor got a shrivelled hand out of his dis secting room and this was put on wiro and placed in tho path whero Sambo had to go. At two o'clock in tho morning wo were there and an hour after the negro arrived, coming along v/hi?tHng a tune. Whan he first saw the ham he stopped, for he could not make iVout; next mom?nt he gave a blood-curdling yell, droppod his gun and hat, and made a world's roeord for sprinting through those lonely woods. We were not bothered with him after that. I have not time to tell how the doc tor's pretty young wife found us two consnirat\n->? o?er the Louiiuy poi at two o'clock another morning and langhingly drove us out of tho kitch en, until with her own fair hands she fixed a glorious breakfast for us, and of how, when going along that morn* ing with a oold wind making us shiver, the log turned as wo tried to oroBS a branch and precipitated tho assortment into the ioy water, and how after that two frozen fools caught lumbago r .it iog foe., the gobbler that never eame. But what memories they are. One&frly morning when tho winter was wemon and turkeys were reported on every hand, the doctor and I mounted our horses and, oalling to his pointer, Ponto, dashed off into the forest. Ponto knew his business; when ho Baw tho motion of the horse men he knew as well as we did that turkeys wero the game and he let him self loose. We had ridden several miles when his furious barking oalled us to the edge of a swamp; he was haying just inside. We dismounted and made our way to him as fast as we oould go. He had a gobbler treed and shoot ing him down was nothing at all; soon Fonto had another and yet another, in each case tho turkeys sat for us, ap parently unmindful of our preaenoe and , wholly bent on watohing Ponto. We bagged five in two hours, two gobblers and three hens. Then we oalled Ponto to heel and rode slowly along; after a while Ponto become" f/estless and was sniffing tho leaves by the trail. The dootor spoke to him and he oiroled the gallberry bushes and with tail up ran into a dense patoh of sparkle berries; out rose a gobbler dashing by us bo fast that ?Gnevic-vu snorted and roared with me, but the dootor, whose horse stood, got him with the first barrel. Ponto treed two more, one of whioh we killed. The dootor let the other, go on?said he fired a squib shell, but then we all do it and all have a good j exouse. . That evening when we reached home a neighbor by the name of Tottis Same over in distress to say that his son, John, was missing sinoe morn- - ing, a lad of thirteen years. Being questioned, Tuttle said his son went off with his muszle-loading shotgun that morning, the.gun being heavily loaded. , From svhsti John had told the doo tor he inferred that Joh& must have fone to a "blind" or pen to shoot tur eyo. We both knew the plaoo and started for it at a gallop, telling Tuttle to follow on foot. Just before we reached the point where the road turn ed ws met John himself. He had a tale of disaster to relate. The tarkeys had oome to the bait and the whole flock was eating oorn from the little drill where it was {riaoed with their heads together when ying full on his face, John fired through the cracks of his pen at the collection of heads. He learned the result a long time afterward, for the gun. flew up and struck, him on the temple, rendering him" ucoonecions. When he camo to himself it was late in the day and he had three dead gobblers stretched in front of. him. The dootor had to take John in baud and sew up his head'; but John wore the soar as a/badge of honor ever ??i?rjand said he would take another for the same reward. j There Js no fiery sport in turkey \ hunting; but it has a charm of its own ( and a reward worth trying for. 8 The coastal regions of Sooth Caro- ( lin a is now the finest territory in e America for hunting turkeys and the j woods in winter will satisfy the most rj exacting taste. : The last wild turkey I ate was cook- fl sdln a pit on the sand which had * been heated for hbursand at last tho ( fire removed. Tho dressed turkey was r placed ; ia the pit and allored to re? a main there closely covered with twigs and leaves, Overlaid with sand, until morning. 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