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...

Nash Buckingham was perhaps the most famous author of sporting tales in the first half of the 20th century. This collection of eight stories first published in Field and Stream , Recreation , and Outdoor Life was originally published by The Derrydale Press in 1934. Buckingham's ability to evoke the golden age of wild fowling along the Mississippi flyway from the 1890s to the 1940s is unparalleled. Pull up your favorite chair in front of a fire and get ready to relive some of the best hunting stories ever told.

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.

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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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