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Some of his comments about politics are great, like telling of the man who went down to Parliment [sic] for 30 years and never opened his kisser. A wonderful description.

Then commenting on how one of the gentrywith [sic] whom he served on a school board had given him permission to Roam over his Beautiful Grounds and shoot. Hawker said, "But when you give a poacher permission to kill game you take the Sugar out of the ginger bread. You rob him of the pleasure it is to an expert poacher to steal a march not only on the game but on the men who claim it for their own. I have poached more for Revenge than for Gain. Because the Class poached upon my liberty when I was not able to defend myself."

Well oldfriend, I've more letters to write. Laid up with a cold and so unable to get to Big Sur and plan to write no less than 30 letters.

Hope I'll get a few back. George

P.S. ? to ?, this Hawker was the"illiterate" son of a tailor - hence the quaint punctuation and capitalization