Reflections, Man and Boy

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Summary: This is one book you will not want to loan.
Review: In my library, I have one shelf for my most treasured books. There you will find, in no particular order, eight books by Gene Hill inscribed to me after I sent them to him along with a quart of Virginia Gentleman; the four books I have by Harry Middleton, (The Earth is Enough is his best by far. He died less than 100 miles from here before I got a chance to run him down); a hand edited copy of Bird Dogs and Field Trials by Jack Harper who trained Texas Ranger; a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird with a personal inscription by the author; my seven volume set of Nash Buckingham plus a few of his later works; and two volumes of REFLECTIONS, MAN AND BOY. One is a paperback the author signed and sent me from Australia, and the other is a new hardback waiting for his state side tour. I have bought several of both versions and given them as gifts. A few people I have thought enough of to give one of each.
REFLECTIONS is a collection of tales that are a combination of Gene Hill and those that might have been told by a few of my great uncles, men woven from a more common cloth. Their tales were of trap lines, coon dogs and of skunk hides that brought 35 cents cash during the hard money days of the depression. They carved their own bass lures, killed their own hogs, made their own kraut, bought and sold hides, and held down a "regular" job to keep food on the table. I guess one of the reasons that they liked to hunt fox and coons was that these were done at night when there was less competition for their time. Unfortunately, Roy, Maurice and Murry did not take time to write down their stores. Fortunately, Ron did. I consider REFLECTIONS a unique book that I will always treasure. I will not recommend that you buy one, for as Gene Hill once said, "If you find a hat or vest or pair of boots that you really like, go on and buy two because by the time you wear the first one out they will no longer be made." Go ahead and buy two copies, that way you will have one to keep and one to loan.

Rating:
Summary: This is one book you will not want to loan.
Review: In my library, I have one shelf for my most treasured books. There you will find, in no particular order, eight books by Gene Hill inscribed to me after I sent them to him along with a quart of Virginia Gentleman; the four books I have by Harry Middleton, (The Earth is Enough is his best by far. He died less than 100 miles from here before I got a chance to run him down); a hand edited copy of Bird Dogs and Field Trials by Jack Harper who trained Texas Ranger; a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird with a personal inscription by the author; my seven volume set of Nash Buckingham plus a few of his later works; and two volumes of REFLECTIONS, MAN AND BOY. One is a paperback the author signed and sent me from Australia, and the other is a new hardback waiting for his state side tour. I have bought several of both versions and given them as gifts. A few people I have thought enough of to give one of each.
REFLECTIONS is a collection of tales that are a combination of Gene Hill and those that might have been told by a few of my great uncles, men woven from a more common cloth. Their tales were of trap lines, coon dogs and of skunk hides that brought 35 cents cash during the hard money days of the depression. They carved their own bass lures, killed their own hogs, made their own kraut, bought and sold hides, and held down a "regular" job to keep food on the table. I guess one of the reasons that they liked to hunt fox and coons was that these were done at night when there was less competition for their time. Unfortunately, Roy, Maurice and Murry did not take time to write down their stores. Fortunately, Ron did. I consider REFLECTIONS a unique book that I will always treasure. I will not recommend that you buy one, for as Gene Hill once said, "If you find a hat or vest or pair of boots that you really like, go on and buy two because by the time you wear the first one out they will no longer be made." Go ahead and buy two copies, that way you will have one to keep and one to loan.