Next November he might be up here with a Nikon instead of a Garand, but it wasn’t next year yet, and the rifle was at hand. He had no intention of looking a gift deer in the mouth.
Well, he thought, it isn’t as if I took a vow, or anything.
No, he hadn’t taken a vow. Next November he might be up here with a Nikon instead of a Garand, but it wasn’t next year yet, and the rifle was at hand. He had no intention of looking a gift deer in the mouth.