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Was Cowper a Wing Shot? 
Cowper, although a most beautiful writer, evi- 
dences in his poem, “The Symptoms of Love,” 
that he could not have been—using the hackneyed 
term—a true sportsman. In the second verse of 
the poem he says: 
“Let her guess what I muse on when rambling alone, 
I stride o’er the stubble each day with my gun, 
Never ready to shoot till the covey is flown.” 
Now, did Cowper expect to pot the covey? 
Could he shoot flying? We think not. What 
an abominable condition he must have fallen into 
not to have had his love reveries completely 
broken up by the whirr of the startled birds. We 
cannot think he uses a poetic license, and fear 
the poet was either unacquainted with the habits 
of the quail he hoped to see “before they had 
flown,” or was very “slow on the trigger.’ Such 
lines sound harsh to a wing-shot. Granting the 
poetic license, does it not detract from the ro- 
mance in reading such otherwise beautiful verses 
to suspect for one moment Cowper should be 
guilty of such a detestable act as he intimates. 
“The Symptoms of Love” is utterly ruined by 
this one tell-tale stanza. Homo. 
Was ‘It a Dream? 
I was attached to the Eighth U. S. Cavalry, 
Col. Shafter commanding, stationed at that time 
at Fort Clark, in Texas, near the Rio Grande 
River. It was often my duty to carry dispatches 
to the adjacent posts. On one occasion of the 
incident which I am about ‘to relate I was on 
my way to Lieut. Van Vleet, in command of a 
small post on the Frio River, about seventy- 
five miles distant. It was on my return trip 
and I rode late to get to water; had picketed 
my horse, eaten my H. T. and coffee, lain down 
with my saddle and blanket, no shelter but the 
starry canopy above, with my carbine lying 
across my lap ready for an Apache or anything 
else. It was nearly 11 P. M. when I fell fast 
asleep. I must have slept soundly two hours, 
when I commenced dreaming (?) that a panther 
Was approaching me. I seemed powerless to 
move or defend myself. Thus I ‘lay on my 
back until he was within a few feet of me, when 
suddenly I awoke and sprung up into a sitting 
position, grasped my carbine and put a bullet 
through the brain of a very large panther not 
more than fifteen feet distant and in exactly the 
place where I dreamed(?) he was. No more 
sleep for me that night, and as the gray of dawn 
was appearing in the east. I was on my way 
with his skin to carry into camp. 
Sam. 


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