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...which he drove to the butt after leaving his car, but this luxury was criticized as bad sportsmanship. Gunners are served by three classes of retainers: 1) beaters who drive the grouse up to the guns; 2) gun-bearers who keep the guns loaded and laid ready on the peat sods of the butts; 3) butlers who keep the glasses filled and serve luncheon. A good day's bag of Scotch grouse is 80. Once before reputable witnesses Lord Walsingham shot 1,070 brace of grouse between breakfast and supper. Occasionally beaters instead of grouse are hit, and then...
Chicago has no War memorial. Planning one, the city offered a $20,000 prize for a design. Last week, Rotarians were startled to read in their monthly magazine The Rotarian, some suggestions by Chicago War Hero Harold R. ("Private") Peat, "winner of more than one medal for distinguished service." Neither an artist nor an architect, Hero Peat's interest in a War memorial was not esthetic but moral. Said...
...Hero Peat, 35, lecturer and anti-war propagandist, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, naturalized a U. S. citizen in 1922. In the War he served as a private (1914-1917), 3rd Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry, was gassed once, wounded twice, left on the battlefield 56 hours. His medals...
Mons Star, King's Medal, Allied Medal. His books: Private Peat, The Inexcusable...