That was a nicely written article. I enjoy Steve's style and approach. I was amazed at the many incidents du Bray was a part of, if only incidentally -- definitely the wrong place at the right time. Was the world really smaller then, or were the figures that much large than life?
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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