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Updated: July 28, 2025
Then followed the usual bad-character witnesses both friends of Halliday, I could see; two this time one charging Bud with all the crimes in the decalogue, and the other, under the lead of the prosecutor, launching forth into an account of a turkey-shoot in which Bud had wrongfully claimed the turkey an account which was at last cut short by the Judge in the midst of its most interesting part, as having no particular bearing on the case.
Poor old Jack! thou hast "gone under," deeper than that, at last, leaving behind thee the savor of an honest name, slightly modified by that of corn whisky. The Hayfield Inn, a little hostelrie on the Northern "pike," is the scene of many a turkey-shoot.
In the next block a "turkey-shoot" is in progress. Crowds are trying their luck at breaking the glass balls that dance upon tiny jets of water in front of a marine view with the moon rising, yellow and big, out of a silver sea. A man-of-war, with lights burning aloft, labors under a rocky coast. Groggy sailormen, on shore leave, make unsteady attempts upon the dancing balls.
The adventurers would beat in the long run, but they would go home not wholly unlearned. Should they stay to a turkey-shoot, they would see in it the Occidental analogue of their own public matches more picturesque, if not quite so prim and scientific. Strictly, it presupposes conditions non-existent in England a community, for instance, first of hunters, and second of hunters with the rifle.
So frequently it would happen that the entrance money ran into a sum that gave a prize value to the turkey, as prices ran for turkeys in those days. There was the element of chance for the man offering the prize that was always alluring. The second turkey-shoot was held at the forty-yard range. But the bird was now tethered behind a log, so that only his head and red wattles could appear.
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