THE LONG TRAIL 



off after duck for sport, in later years he 

 never used a shotgun except for collecting 

 specimens or shooting for the pot. He 

 continually encouraged us to learn to 

 shoot with the gun. In a letter he wrote 

 me to Europe when I was off after 

 chamois he said: "I have played tennis 

 a little with both Archie and Quentin, and 

 have shot with the rifle with Archie and 

 seen that he has practised shotgun shoot- 

 ing with Seaman." 



When my brother and myself were ten 

 and eight, respectively, father took us and 

 four of our cousins of approximately the 

 same ages to the Great South Bay for a 

 cruise, with some fishing and bird-shoot- 

 ing thrown in, as the guest of Regis Post. 

 It was a genuine sacrifice on father's part, 

 for he loathed sailing, detested fishing and 

 was, to say the least, lukewarm about 

 bird-shooting. Rowing was the only 

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