Jj'ntitmber, 1942
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Up and at ’Em By Emmett Riordan
We were over at Jack Pratt’s, John and I, working on arrows, when John suddenly got the idea. He gets them like that—right out of the sky. ‘■’We’ve got to go on a hunt,” he said, “and September 17th is as good as any time. We’ll get Kore up and Frank De Wolf, and go up to see Milt Adams for a few days, what do you think?” That was sort of a silly question. No one ever thinks these things over when the night is full of autumn and you can see your way clear to do a duck for awhile. All there was to do was to phone Kore and Frank and
tell Milt we were coming. Milt Adams owns a logging camp on Quadra Island, where the deer aren’t big (?) but there are lots of them, and a fellow doesn’t have to be dodging bullets all the time, because it’s not much hunted. Milt and his wife, Marion, are famous for their unexcelled hospitality, especially to John and his archer friends. It was here that Howard Hill, Fred Woodley and Bob Fass were taken on their northern trip in 1938. The Island is good sized chunk of moss-covered rock about 22 miles by 4, lying immediately north of the
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Left to right: Jack Pratt, Emmett Riordan, Kore Duryee, John Garrett, Frank De Wolf