further off the Vintagers topic
I have these lines on one of my powder horns along with a setter on point with a rising grouse
" Better to hunt in Fields, for Health unbought,
Than fee the Doctor for a nauseous Draught."
from a poem by John Dryden a 17th century English writer (To My Honor'd Kinsman, John Driden)
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"If there is a heaven it must have thinning aspen gold, and flighting woodcock, and a bird dog" GBE
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