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Originally Posted by allen newell
Steve, I grew up in the Greenlodge section of Dedham, Mass. The Neponset meadow was at the end of our street. I could literally walk out the back door and hunt native grouse, flight woodcock and pheasants all day long. Unfortunately, when they put the developments in that ended hunting in our area. God, those were the days tho.
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I can’t tell you how familiar—and sad—this story is. I’m sorry for us all.
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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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