Tonight, with a nice fire in the woodstove, I'm going to begin reading Foster's "New England Grouse Shooting" once again. It is a great read and I really enjoy Foster's style and local knowledge. I recognize surnames of characters in his stories as well as names of places in and around Andover, Tewksbury, and North Reading. He mentions the "Shawsheen Meadows" and I live right at their edge along the Shawsheen River. And Uncle Ev's "The Little Gun" is very easy to imagine the feel of, as I have had three just like it - in fact I still have one of them. See "Shot To Destruction" in the Autumn 2015 Issue of Parker Pages.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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