Tag: Clyde Morton

My Good Luck

April 5, 2023 | Poetry | Comments
I look back Across decades Of a grand life With joy and gratitude And for no part more Than my bird dog field trial life Which began modest but became grand Read more

Going to Ames

February 10, 2022 | National Championship, Poetry | Comments
So your dog is qualified And you’re going to Grand Junction To run in The National Championship The one and only To run on the Ames Plantation Where for a century and a quarter The continent’s best bird dog has been yearly crowned And where bird dog stories true and fiction abound Read more

The Secret

February 24, 2018 | Short Stories | Comments
It was the best kept secret in bird dog field trials for a time, and then it was not. Booty Blevins was scout for Ed Moore, who in turn was handler for Harley Keen, owner of a cigarette maker and a Georgia quail plantation known as Knotty Pine. It was the Dirty Thirties, and times were desperate for all but a few, but not for Harley Keen, one of America’s Read more

Priceless Memories

January 18, 2018 | Field Trial Recollections | Comments
Field trials have brought me priceless friendships. Among the most cherished was with Ed Mack Farrior and his lovely wife Floyd. They arose from an invitation to report and later judge the National Amateur Free-For-All Championship at Union Springs. Read more

Apprentice Scout

December 19, 2017 | Short Stories | Comments
The year was 1961. Mose Green had scouted for Ike Weeks thirty years. Mose was black. Ike was white. They lived mid-March through June in Southwest Georgia, but spent most of nine months of the year away, July through mid-September on Canadian prairie, the rest of the year on the road traveling to trial venues, Midwest, Southwest, finally Deep South for the cold months. They traveled in a two-ton truck, Read more