Chapter 14: Spend some time smoking your pipe. When we were kids growing up in Illinois, we would play a hide and seek tag game in the...

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Chapter 13: Know a fat cow from a poor bull. This year, as my job, I am a substitute teacher for two different schools. I have...

Chapter 12: Every individual man is an important part of the company. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for...

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Chapter 11: Speak the language of the Mountains. As a child who grew up with farmers all around, I heard a lot of “weather lore” about...

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Chapter 10: Be the best sky pilot you can. My grandpa was a pilot. He owned his own plane and would take us for flights whenever he...

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God designed the world so He could be happy. The first day He said, “let there be light” and there was light. Later in the week, the...

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Chapter 9: Always enjoy the robe season. “The mountain man took each day as it came; if he were successful in his peltries, he enjoyed...

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Chapter 8: Keep your bark tough. I was in the park the other day with my kids. A little fuzzball dog came by and they asked permission...

Chapter 7: Cut your beard and look like you want to do business. I have never liked tucking in my shirt. I remember when I was partly...

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Chapter 6: Tell the best stories and shoot the straightest. I remember it well. It was a dark and drizzly night in the Appalachian...

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Chapter 5: Take care of your horse and your rifle. “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” Benjamin Franklin. What a great...

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