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Nov 19, 1937 cont
midnight & then to bed.

Nov 20, 1937
Up at seven.  Breakfast & then turkey hunting.  The senators went with a guide up the hollow while Nichols, Brewster & I climbed the hills.  The Senators quickly got Turkeys on feeding ground but we saw none until after Nichols separated from us.  He got into a bunch and killed five.  Brewster & I saw none & killed none.  Back to lunch & then on hill to his duck pond where I tried for the first time the stunt of shooting hand raised released mallards.  Fairly good test of a mans shooting eyes & some of the senators were p[[?]].  Gauntlet & I only ones to shoot consistently.  Came back to town with the Senators & Nichols.  Saunders raised around Harcourt & knows all the family.
Went to Oregan State dinner with Clara & then caught 2.00AM train to Hamlet N.C.

Nov 21, 1937.
Chalk met me at Hamlet at 11.00AM & we went to Rockingham to his home for dinner & then to North State Game Club at council arriving about 5.00PM.
Met Judge Phillips of State bench at Chalks home & numerous state officials at Council.

Nov 22, 1937
Sat on a deer stand all day listening to the dogs run down several does