A bit off the trail here, so forgive me. We once had a preacher who loved squirrel hunting as much as my Pop (a Deacon) and I. Every now and then he’d go on a Fall Saturday afternoon…when, he said, his sermon was written. Big stuff for a 7 year old.
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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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