Stories of Some Shoots

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Excerpt from Stories of Some Shoots: Or, the Chronicles of a Gratified Gunner This was the beginning of it. The talk occurred in the winter of 1910 at my house in Washington, where the Colonel and the Chief were spending an evening with me. You might have expected me to forget the conversation with its attendant invitation almost immediately - ii you are crazy - otherwise you may be quite sure that sleeping or waking the thought of that suggested expedition was never quite out of my mind. I planned and I hoped and I worked for it as a boy struggles to save his first money to get fourth-of-july fireworks. I almost came to the point of feeling sure I would die before the time came around, much as I used to feel when I was a little shaver and counted the long months between me and Christmas. But nothing happened except good things. My business went along well, two or three new clients with reasonable retainers in their hands appeared as it were out of a clear sky, and by midsummer of 1911 dalliance with the ducks began to loom large in the fall foreground. The Colonel and I used to talk it over together. He is one of the most sympathetic men I have ever known. He wanted to go, too. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.