Tales of Shooting and Fishing BY NASH BUCKINGHAM ILLUSTRATED BY H.
P. A. M. HOECKER G. P. PUTNAMS SONS NEW YORK TO MY NEPHEW PFC.
JAMES ARTHUR VALENTINE WARE ASN. 34720019 Who, like countless
thousands of other intrepid G. L Purple Hearts, taught since
boyhood to handle firearms and shoot straight gave it, got it, and
took it for God, Coun try, and Freedoms Cause but will carry on
again to gun marsh and field with a grateful old Nunky for whom and
other loved ones he laid his life on the line. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The
courtesy of Field Stream, Sports Afield, Outdoors, American Field
in permitting repro duction of some of these stories is gratefully
acknowledged. In the article Wild Or Tame Game Birds For Future
Gunning full collabora tive credit to Mr. Werner O. Nagel, of
Columbia, Missouri. We also acknowledge the co-operation of Mr.
Charles Gillham, Chief, Sportsmens Serv ice Division, Olin
Industries, East Alton, Illinois and express deep appreciation to
Robert S. An derson, of Memphis, Tennessee, sportsman-pho
tographer, for his fine co-operation. CONTENTS Foword Given Only to
the Honored 3 The Gallows-Bear 16 Ghost Trout 3 2 Bird Dog Blinkers
47 Like Old Times 54 Vild or Tame Game Birds 67 The Great Reprisal
101 A Certain Rich Man 1 1 6 Vhat Really Happens Out Quail Shooting
132 Januaries Afield 145 Jail Break 156 A Pretty Place for
Pheasants 170 Backward Turn Backward 176 We Give You Back 186
ILLUSTRATIONS PACING PAGE Ill hear your hail and look back to catch
your smile. Frontispiece Pat has challenged and battled every
hazard and fury of the most powerful river on Earth. 10 Toms famed
double-nose got an outstanding workout that sunny afternoon. 20 A
scene, I told myself, as ageless asGods wrath. 21 May young eyes
see again cool dawn mists. 26 And long skeins of wood ducks woven
against sunsets. 27 Field trial Champion Eugenes Ghost
winner-in-action at U. S. Open, 1922. One of setterdoms all-time
greats. 48 What canine neuroses, inhibitions, complexes, and
allergies lurk in bird dog make-ups 134 With a touch of sadness I
see this old life afield slipping away. 135 Hal has crossed over
the riverso let my Ahai ring on him. 178 God bless a day and dog
like this. . . . 186 viii FOWORD FOR a period so protracted as to
visibly shrink ones life expectancy, Nash Buckingham has been
promising to take me hunting and or fishing to some of those
fabulous old gunning and angling paradises about which he writes.
Nash made the initial proposal soon after I had first read De
Shootinest Genfman. For die benefit of those coming in late, this
establishes the period as approximately the Glacial Age. During
intervening eons, Nash has reaffirmed that solemn pledge. While
partaking of Mingos hot-cat-an-taters at Doug Stampers Mermaid
Tavern, for instance, he has lured on my panting novices hopes with
oral paintings of waterfowling as practiced of yore at Beaver Dam,
or, in more modern vein, at Section 16 along Bayou Lagrues pin oaks
and ricelands. He has led me up into the high hills and shown me
the Seven Temptations of quailing at the Ames plantation, Hugh
Bucking hams farm, or in Bob Carriers plush coverts. Listening
rapdy, Fve found myself actually changing into shooting togs at
table, while Mingos shrimp gumbo, meandering its spoons rim,
registered chameleon-like deposits along my necktie or in the
upper-tier creases of my waistcoat. Manys the day, a much younger
Paul basking in thesunshine of a benign and understanding Gamaliels
smile, I have in minds eye centered a high-flying brace of
greenheads, scored repeated rights and lefts on bobwhites zooming
beyond Ethel and Edgar ix x GAME BAG Queenys statuesquely frozen
setters and pointers, defied spinal arthritis with back-cracking
lifts of four-pound crappies from the Blow-Hole at Lake Sardis, and
outbattled bass that would have struck at Jonahs whale for a mere
popping-bug lure...
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