I can't remember the writer that first penned that every man deserved a once-in-a-lifetime grouse dog, but I've been blessed with two. It's hard not to long for the days when you went into a cover with that dog knowing that any grouse there would be pointed.
Tom, you had him, and you still do.
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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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