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Old May 16th, 2011, 02:54 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Injun Joe
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Default tr--or, how age and infirmity make cowards of us all...

On May 16, 2:44*am, Ellis Morgan wrote:
In article , Bill Grey
Joe the Elder offers-Wallace Stegner my- favorite American author [ and one of our best ] writes in TheSpectator Bird " -


" I am really getting old, it comes as a shock to realize that I am
just killing time till time gets around to killing me...........::"'

Thankfully a young (72) pert wife- a few physical activites - many
good books and Manhattens at five keep me busy--but the dark cloud
is there and I often wonder what's going to happen to my 500 unused
flies and my five fly rods
when---


SUNSET AND EVENING STAR AND ONE CLEAR CALL FOR ME !
AND MAY THERE BE NO MOANING AT THE BAR ; WHEN I PUT OUT TO SEA.

TENNYSON