The Market Gunner: A Tale of Loss (a short story) 1 -- The Long and the Short of It 19 -- Quest for Quiet 25 -- Mudbats Forever! 33 -- A Snipe Hunt 41 -- The Slide Toward Senescence 47 -- The Royal Macbob 53 -- Close Encounters of the Worst Kind 61 -- The Vermont Everglades 71 -- Good-Bye, Old Paint? 79 -- Ramblings of a Dogman 85 -- First Aid for Fido 103 -- Roughing It 109 -- Hell with the Fires Out 115 -- The Flying Buffalo 121 -- A Hippie-Dippie Bird Hunt 129 -- Champion 139 -- Sea Geese and Desert Whales 147 -- Jake Among the Turtledoves 155 -- Of Doves and War 161 -- Farewell to a Sportsman 167 -- Scribblings in the Snow 173 -- Grassfires 183 -- High on the Wild 189 -- "Hunger Is the Key" 197 -- Through a Glass, Darkly 205 -- The Bionic Gunner 211 -- The Big One One 217 -- The Everlasting Lab 223 -- The Hunter in My Heart 229 -- The Last Hunt 237 -- Starting All Over Again 245 -- Death in the Tangled Syntax: A Tale of Revenge (a short story) 253.