which were hunted both with grey- 
hounds and guns. My earliest hunting 
was done with greyhounds when I was 
eight or nine years old. English Jim 
Pearson, a teamster in our town, had 
three, and he told myself and two other 
boys one Saturday that we might take 
them out and run a few jacks to give 
the dogs exercise. We did, but had no 
luck. The following Saturday we 
wanted to take the dogs out again, but 
English Jim said: ‘No, boys, ye can’t 
run the ’ounds today, as they might 
over’eat themselves. It was two or 
three years later, before it dawned upon 
my understanding that Jim really 
meant that; because that second Satur- 
day was rather a warm day, the hounds 
might overheat themselves. Not being 
familiar with the English peculiarity 
of dropping h’s where they really be- 
longed and putting them in where they 
were superfluous, we supposed the man 
meant what he said—that they might 
overeat. 
ol fon hunting plover we usually fol- 
lowed somebody who was plowing 
wheat stubble, following harvest. The 
birds simply flocked along the fresh 
turned furrows, grabbing off grubs and 
grasshoppers and other enemies of the 
farmer. Now the plover are hard to 
find out in that section of Kansas, or 
elsewhere I guess, but there are more 
grasshoppers than ever before and they 
are the ruination of thousands of acres 
of alfalfa.” 
Now in closing, here is just one more 
extract from an old friend who loves 
the outdoors: 
“T have read your book and am glad 
of the opportunity. It awakens so 
many wonderful memories of days that 
are never to come again. You were 
a few years ahead of me and you saw 
some things that I did not—the buffalo 
and the wild turkey, for instance—but 
the pigeons and the quail, the upland 
birds and most of the game of which 
you speak was as plentiful around In- 
dianapolis in the days of my first for- 
ays as they were around Saginaw, and 
I am glad to have lived in a time when 
I might revel in them. If we are coming 
to the time when the game has disap- 
peared, the country one great culti- 
vated farm and the fastnesses of the 
forests are no more, I guess it is well 
enough that my time is drawing to a 
close, for I could not enjoy what ap- 
pears to be before us anyhow.” 

In writing to 
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