In those days wild turkeys were common and people often caught them in a trap called a turkey pen, constructed or rather built as follows: With poles they would build a pen about six feet square on the side of a hill, and would dig a ditch about a foot deep on the lower side running up into the pen. They would cover it with poles and to give it a forest-like appearance would throw brush around it. With corn scattered profusely in the ditch, the turkeys were lured up into the pen, but a turkey will not look down for a way out so they are caught. A man named Charles Davis built one of these pens and going to it one morning, found that he had several turkeys in it. He partly removed the cover and climbed in. The frightened turkeys made a lot of noise and attracted a hungry wolf. It did not see Davis and it came bounding down the hill and into the pen and upon him. Imagine the scene if you can - man, wolf and turkeys all wanting out. It did not take Davis long to get busy. Without being told, he opened practically the whole top of the pen to make plenty of room and wolf, turkeys and man all escaped. In speaking of the incident afterwards, Davis said, "If I hadn't knocked the whole kiver off that ere pen I do believe that blamed wolf would have killed its fool self. " We naturally wonder if the man would not have done so too. Waller.
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