Quote:
Originally Posted by Clark McCombe
The previous owner of Briermere was an uncommon farmer. Nearly a hundred and thirty years ago he began planting peaches and apples instead of potatoes and cauliflower.
Along the edge of the woodland he planted daffodils, azaleas, and rhododendrons. The deer have long since feasted on the azaleas and rhododendrons.
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Clark, is this your farm?
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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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