An exciting “wild turkey chase” occurred recently at Bodines according to a correspondent who supplies the following details.

The turkey appeared in a neighboring field. Ira High, a noted trapper and unerring hunter and a lot of other things too numerous to mention, was promptly notified.

He girded himself for the hunt, seized his rifle and set out, followed by a considerable portion of the female population of the village who wanted to see the famous hunter at work.

The turkey was sighted making for the woods. It was a long shot, but Ira risked it. The turkey reared, plunged forward, turned several somersaults, and started off on a new track, heading for the shelter of the woods.

Ira dashed off in pursuit, soon outdistancing the women, who were forced to watch the remainder of the hunt from a distance.

Then appeared a worthy Bodines woman crying loudly to the hunter to spare the life of her prize turkey, which had escaped from the pen from which she was fattening it for Christmas, Ira was too intent on sustaining his reputation as a hunter to hear the pleas of the distracted owner of the bird and kept on firing until the gobbler made good his escape.

Mr. High returned to the village very much crestfallen to think that before such a group of admiring spectators he had missed a number of fair shots. He was doubly chagrined when he found that it was not a wild turkey but a common barnyard fowl which had outwitted him.

The truant gobbler was recovered from the fright and returned from the shelter of the woods and is again undergoing the fattening process.