Category Archives: woodcock hunting

Orin’s farm girl

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Jerry Johnson

Mary Martha died at thirty-two, three years after her husband was killed in a tractor roll-over accident, leaving two children, a girl fourteen and a boy ten, with the only close-by family able to take them in being her sister … Continue reading →

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A brace of woodcock

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Jerry Johnson

A BRACE of game birds: plural, two wild birds of the same type that have been killed for sport or food; from the Middle English or Old French word brace (brah-say), meaning “arms” hence a pair; a sporting term that … Continue reading →

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