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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10, 1918 



To you who liko tales of the 

 out-of-doors; who know the feel 

 of a gun and the thrill of a good 

 shot; to you who because good 

 fellowsliip is a part of your own 

 nature, can sense the feel of cor- 

 diality in the pressure of a man "s 

 hand, I would like to recount 

 again the story of the second 

 cruise of the Marie J., from the 

 port of Vicksburg, on the Missis- 

 sippi river, to the now locally 

 famous Tennessee Bar, the one 

 purpose behind the cruise, as last 

 year, being pursuit of the wary 

 Canada goose. But even though 

 every last thing that could possi 

 bly add to the pleasure of again 

 sailing with Capt. Dan seemed to 

 have been done, the outstanding 

 memory of the second hunt is 



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that none of the thrills nor the 

 pleasures of the first, a year be- 

 fore, were proven by repetition to 

 be illusions. The trip this year 

 was doubly successful because 

 we felt that we were going back 

 to old friends. The Marie J. 

 seemed more like a home to us; 

 the men who faced us across the 

 table at night seemed more like 

 old pals; the second trip to the 

 same hunting grounds smacked 

 more of the wanderer's return to 

 the scene of his boyhood pleas- 

 ures. 



And so the very repetition 

 which might bore you in print, 

 imparted to the second trip with 

 3apt. Dan a comfortableness which 



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sweetened the excursion just as 

 the color which you have smoked 

 into your meerschaum makes your 

 old slippers feel better and your 

 aim chair more comfortable when 

 you arc drawn up in front of a 

 friendly fire with a good dinner 

 umlcr your belt. 



I hope you remember dear old 

 ('apt. Dan from last year. The 

 captain has l)een "running" the 

 Iciwer Mississip|ji river for a good 

 iiiany years. Since we made the 

 lirst trip with him he has 

 hauled many a raft of logs down 

 the river to the Anderson-Tully 

 Company's big mills at Vicks- 

 burg. The Marie .T., which the 

 captain jiilots, is one of Ander- 

 son-Tully 's main dependencies for 

 its supply of logs at Vicksburg. 



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SHERMAN- HOUSTON POSES: POOR GEORGE WAS TIRED- 

 LOU, SAM AND WILBUR; CAPTAIN DAX AND CAPTAIX TOM. 



MAINLY 1--I;ANKS COAT 

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We were ' ' all aboard ' ' at dusk 

 on a clear December day. Last 

 year's bunch was all there, Bart 

 Tally and Sam Thompson, Capt. 

 Dan Quinn and his son, Capt. 

 Tom, the hosts, and we fortunates, 

 George Osgood, Wilbur Thistle- 

 wood, Frank May and the writer. 

 And there were two newcomers, 

 Lou Doster of association and 

 Atkin 's saw fame and Sherman 

 Houston, whom everybody around 

 Memphis and Chicago knows, — 

 Lou is a novice and Sherman an 

 expert goose hunter. 



It is true that we didn 't get so 

 big a bag as last year, some for- 

 ty-five geese being killed, but 

 that in no way dimmed the en- 



