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...heart-stirring tug of a hooked trout. There would be hunting soon and with it would come the cold feel and oily click of a rifle's cocking lever, the look of a deer slung across the car's radiator, the sight of ducks in mist or pheasant starting like an explosion of color from brown grass, the distant belling of a Bluetick hound...
...Fruitful Life. Meanwhile John Okie enjoyed life. He traveled to Europe, brought back art objects for the Big Tepee, entertained lavishly. There were-and still are-deer and antelope, grouse, pheasant and duck to be hunted on the vast ranch. The tumbling creeks flash with trout. In 1930, aged 67, John Okie went hunting ducks along one of his irrigation reservoirs, slipped in and was drowned. The 57,500-acre empire of the Big Father declined...
Suddenly he looked up, drawled to his aide: "There's a couple of pheasant-in that field over there." His aide, Captain Lewis D. Bridge, peering at the brownish specks 300 yards away, could recall with good reason that his boss was a famous hunter, one of the Army's finest riflemen and skeet shooters...
...must have their pâté de foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...
...south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long known Manipur for the finest pheasant shooting east of Suez. Until last week, Manipur's tough little polo ponies, twelve hands high, thundered twice a week over Imphal fields to help the officers pass the time...