What a fine way to spend the day! I skipped class in high school once to go squirrel hunting with my Pop and to pick up seedlings from the Virginia State Nursery. He wrote me an excuse for the absence, telling the truth about the day. I got an unexcused absence and it ruined my perfect attendance. It was one of the best days of my life, and (obviously) I'm still talking about it.
A special day is irreplaceable, and you sometimes discover its value long after the fact.
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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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