Dean, a nicely written remembrance. It's nice to have the past to go to on occasion, especially when the present is so unsettled. Thanks for bringing your story back for those of us who missed it the first time.
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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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