Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 41
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 12, 1907
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Covey of Quail Tempts Local Sports
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A covey of quail appeared in Marlin late Tuesday evening under rather mysterious
circumstances and remained over night. The birds were very tame and scores
of eyes feasted upon them at close range, but nary a feather was touched.
Even the small boys refrained from making a target out of them. One of
them alighted in the store of Bunch, Adams & Co., one found a resting place on
the calaboose and others perched themselves in different conspicuous places in
the business district and chirped their "Bob Whites" in a manner that seemed to
say "shoot me if you dare."
The presence of the entire covey int he
city was first established by Alderman Rush who heard their Bob White warbles
and knew that he could not be mistaken.
Some say that the birds were just passing
through and stopped to spend the night in the city, while others are inclined to
believe that the covey were released near town at the instance of Capt. Jack
Watters, Deputy Game Warden, who was merely "trying out" the Marlin sports to
see if they could resist the temptation to shoot the quail.
Anyhow, the quail were unmolested and if it
was a scheme of the wary captain, which we very much doubt, then he will have to
try again.
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