Everyone who cares deeply about pointing dogs, upland game and field trials will want copies of Bill Allen’s The Unforgettables and Other True Fables. The collection includes the original seven Unforgettable, five later showpieces, and… 
On the morning of March 9, in a cotton field just outside Hernando Mississippi, on the (Leslie) Anderson Place, Eddie Mack Farrior shook me awake and said: “You want to see her now?” “Hail Farr,…
WITHOUT misquoting Tennyson and without attacking or impugning the motives, character, literacy or parentage of anyone living or dead, this writer would like to relieve himself of a burden of thought that has been abuilding…
Since I was comparatively young, I have been fascinated by the feet of dogs, especially the pads, of course since the evening my Uncle Roy and Uncle Pat surprised me with the information that dogs…
Back to part-time attendance at field trials, covering them for a daily newspaper, I began to do some grouse hunting in the Nantahala and Chattahoochee National Forests in north Georgia and North Carolina. Very few…
We left me in my usual state of quandary in those days, caught between Guy Stancil who was thoroughly convinced one could selectively breed a dog that would want to stay in front of a…
(Author’s Note: Our two prior installments were presented in “third person” because much of the material was objective and common to at least the two youths, if not, indeed’ general knowledge collected by many in…
Before they parted company, not to hunt together again, Bill and James picked up some hunting habits that were not all bad. They carried extra socks and fatback in cat head biscuits that would keep…
Red clay crenelated with upthrust ice scrunched underfoot. Thistles bobbed and broom sedge waved gallantly in the chill northwest wind from the pond. The punkin-eyed setter and the jug-headed old pointer emptied out and trembled…
