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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Is there any good game about here? Any wild-turkeys, or pheasants?" "There are plenty of squirrels," returned Ashburn, a little sarcastically, "and the woods are full of robbins." "Squirrels make a first-rate pie. But I needn't tell you that, my friend. Every farmer knows the taste of squirrels," said the sportsman with great good-humour. "Still, I want to try my hand at a wild-turkey.
This recreation, primarily belonging to localities where large game, such as deer and wild-turkeys, is found, has spread down to the cities, where it breaks out in a sporadic form about Christmas.
The count de Beauvoir, in describing a hunt of several days, speaks with enthusiasm of the flocks of wild-turkeys and blue cranes, but bewails his ill-success in running down the huge emus that stalked before the hunters faster than their horses could gallop.
"I'll sell you five hundred bushels at ninety-two," said the farmer, half-hoping that this green customer might be tempted to buy at this advance upon the regular rate. "Will you?" interrogated the stranger. "Yes." "I'm half-tempted to take you up. I really believe I no! I must knock over some wild-turkeys first. It won't do to come this far without bagging rarer game than wheat.
Dutch for a peculiar kind of cheap brandy very popular with the Boers. This return was given me by Major Gould Adams. African wild-turkeys. This was incorrect. The officer in charge and two others were severely wounded, the driver and stoker killed by the explosion of the boiler. "The days are so long, and there are so many of them."
"Ninety is all it is selling for here." "Ninety! I should like to buy some at that." "I have no doubt you can be accommodated," replied the farmer. "That is exceedingly low for wheat. If it wasn't for having a week's sport among your wild-turkeys, and the hope of being able to kill a deer, I'd stop and buy up a lot of wheat on speculation."
"Ninety-one ninety-one," said the stranger, to himself. "That is a temptation! I can turn a penny on that. But the wild-turkeys; I must have a crack at a wild-turkey or a deer. I think, friend," he added, speaking louder, "that I will have some sport in these parts for a few days first. Then, maybe, I'll buy up a few thousand bushels of wheat, if the prices haven't gone up."
Sometimes it would be antelope or elk; on another occasion, it would consist of black tailed deer, which are celebrated as being the largest and the finest species of venison that roam the forests of any country and are only to be found in the Rocky Mountains; on another, wild-turkeys; and then mountain grouse and prairie chickens helped to complete the load.
Spitted by the railway, the hub of many turnpikes, and surrounded by a thickly-peopled country, it is yet near enough to the mountains to receive from them each winter quite a delegation of their inhabitants. Last year wild-turkeys were shot within the corporate limits, a deer was chased within half a mile of them, and a fine specimen of Felis Canadensis was killed in an orchard still nearer.
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