A place on earth sublime
Where quail prevail
And pointers seek and point them
For men and women to swing guns to shoot them
Save in the second week of January
When the world's best dogs come to seek and point them
Their handlers stomp to flush them
And they fly away to safety
And when the gallery has passed
The quail regroup
And wander through the wire grass seeking corn to eat
Wary still of predators avian and pedestrian
On the Heaven that is Chinquapin
Tom Word is a lawyer who represents individuals about managing their assets and for amusement writes fiction and non-fiction about bird dogs and humans obsessed with them.
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Growing up in the south one gains an appreciation for late fall/early springtime bobwhite quail hunting behind a brace of pointers about as much as anything can be appreciated. The landscape here is dotted with private plantations, public s.. more ..
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