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11bIIn those days it was necessary for us to watch the pigeons and keep them off our wheat fields in order to 1 save our crops. Where they roosted they would break the limbs from the r timber by their weight. The wild v geese and ducks were very plentiful a and we could easily kill what we i wanted in a few hours time. eThere were also plenty of deer and turkey and pheasants and prairie chickens. Of the wild animals be- . sides the deer we had the big timber wolf, the little prairie wolf, the wild cat, the lynx, the catamount, theground hog, the otter and many Small animals that are now entirely , extinct. But the wild hog was the delight of the boys. They were plenty and always found in herds. Sometimes more than one hundred in aherd. The boys would slip up as »close as they thought was safe and b climo trees. They would then make * a noise and the hogs would soon be under the trees trying to get at them. When they had all the fun theywanted they would call the dogs or a they would shoot and wound one dwhen it would squeal and take to the brush with all the bunch after him when the boys would down and run for life. 1 have wondered many
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Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Wed, Apr 28, 1909
Page 5
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