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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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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 approached.When 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 those.
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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 sheer desp

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