If all WHF ever did was produce "New England Grouse Shooting" he would still be an immortal of the tribe of the outdoors scribe. He accomplished a good deal more then that...That he was both a spare and careful writer and an illustrator of casual and sensitive charm makes him even more remarkable as far as I am concerned. "The Little Gun" is to Parkers what Bo Whoop is to the Fox gun...relatively plain and even pedestrian guns used in the hands of extraordinary writers and sportsman. Afterall it was the writing that made the guns famous not the other way around. His prose, like The Little Gun don't weigh but nuthin' however both of them live on. Now, if Ev Harnden's house was for sale...
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