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On mushrooms and the curiousity of a young boy “Grandpa,” he said, “Did you notice that humans are the only predators which are kind to their prey.”
I thought about that for a minute, dumbfounded that a 6-year-old would even think of such things. Ryan went on to explain that the bass and tyrannosaurus rex and wolves in particular were very cruel and vicious in catching and eating their food. Now that I think about it, he is right, but then he wasn’t around to see me and my cousins come to the breakfast table on my grandpa’s farm. It is nice to have grandsons who finally get to the age you can start to teach them to hunt and fish and not worry about them wetting their pants anymore. I am going to enjoy these next few years if I can keep their mother in the dark about some things. I think Alex and me will be very much on the same page, as you can see him on schedule to be a grizzled old outdoor veteran like me at a young age. He’ll likely never call a possum anything but a possum, and he can already spit. But Ryan may soon be on a level way over my head. I didn’t even know I was a predator until I had eaten enough squirrels and rabbits and ducks to fill a pick-up bed. And I wasn’t reading until I was forced into it. I will be writing more in upcoming columns about the Missouri Department of Conservation and some things you need to know about what they are doing. And I will write more about the book I am planning to do on Ozark War Veterans from WWII. We still intend to celebrate Uncle Norten’s birthday around Veteran’s Day with a get-together and dinner for WWII paratroopers. Address correspondence to Larry Dablemont, Box 22, Bolivar, Mo., 65613. Send e-mail to lightninridge@alltel.net, check the Web site www.larrydablemont.com, or call (417) 777-5227. 
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