To Henry Strater, 10 December [1931]

Summary

Riviera Apartments

229 Ward Parkway

KC. Mo.

Dec 10—

Dear Mike:—

Glad you had such a fine trip and I hope Maggie is all right so you can get down to K.W. soon. If everything goes well here we should be there a week or 10 days before Xmas—

Finished my book except some hack work on the Appendix— Think you’ll like it—Will get it copied in K.W. and send to Max—will have a copy for you to read—

Greg weighs 10½ lbs at a month—no fat—all build—solemn bastard— Have just been to Piggott shooting quail for a week—swell shooting—killed 3 straight three times—four straight once—the four in the woods—followed them in out of a corn field—got a double in thick brush—briars and hanging vines from the trees— First one went straight away—couldn’t see him fall—turned and swung with second over right shoulder—swinging the gun like a pitchfork—butt down opposite my belly— Dog brought in the first one while I was picking up the second— Paulines brother for a witness—both shots the brush too thick to get the gun to the shoulder even for a snap—Damn but they are fun to shoot—Coveys bother me—believe you kill more birds if you only kill one out of a covey— mark him and then mark down all the others— If you shoot more than twice at a covey in high corn or any sort of cover you cant see where they go—