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Originally Posted by John Campbell
Mr. Gordon: Please protect that fine Dickson from the myriad hazards of a duck marsh. And well done on finding its history. Fully half the pleasure of owning these grand old guns is the provenance they carry with them.
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Thanks, John. You are so right about the pleasure of serving as caretaker for these fine pieces of history. And I promise to be careful with this gun on its one or two outings in coming seasons.
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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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