Rod and gun . ry-ing to exterminate ground hogs and wildpigeons on our fathers farms, and this annual reunion brings up old reminis-cences of boyhood, which bear repeat-ing every year. The doctor, always pos-sessing the greater nerve, was the firstto take to dear hunting, and not infre-quently in those days could be found onrunways along the side lines in East andWest Flamboro well on in the cultivated the habit later. Arriving at Lavant Station at four-thirtj- we transferred our baggageto a stage in waiting, and with our twodeer hounds and two bird dogs, startedon a twenty-two
Rod and gun . ry-ing to exterminate ground hogs and wildpigeons on our fathers farms, and this annual reunion brings up old reminis-cences of boyhood, which bear repeat-ing every year. The doctor, always pos-sessing the greater nerve, was the firstto take to dear hunting, and not infre-quently in those days could be found onrunways along the side lines in East andWest Flamboro well on in the cultivated the habit later. Arriving at Lavant Station at four-thirtj- we transferred our baggageto a stage in waiting, and with our twodeer hounds and two bird dogs, startedon a twenty-two mile drive to the villageof Plevna. The driver vouchsafed thecheery information as darkness was com-ing on, that he could travel as far in halfan hour in daylight on that road, as hecould in an hour after dark. This re-minded me of the saying of an old set-tler on one of our former visits, that theworst of that countrv was. the moonnever shined on a dark night. We ar-rived safely at nine-fifty, and after some. James Irvine, Pioneer and Captain of the Pleasant ValleyHunt Club. n84 ?ROT) A (~;r\ ix Canada
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