"The thing I like about the Old Man is that he's willing to talk about what he knows, and he never talks down to a kid, which is me, who wants to know things. When you are as old as the Old Man, you know a lot of things that you forgot you ever knew..."
Robert Ruark
"The Old Man and the Boy"
Found the book on the floor next to my computer this cold morning. It's pages dry and yellow. A little Crest paper-back from 1962, it's cover page inscribed "Danny O'Bryan 305." That was the Hog's "home room" at Flaget High School back then, and the book was one of the first he can remember being really moved by. He would take it to class and read it when the strict Catholic Brothers weren't looking. Ruark was a columnist for "Sports Afield" magazine and a fan of Ernest Hemingway. Thank you Mr. Ruark for your contribution to the Hog's education.
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