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Title: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis

Author: Various

Contributor: Gouverneur Morris
Booth Tarkington
Charles Dana Gibson
E. L. Burlingame
Augustus Thomas
Theodore Roosevelt
Irvin S. Cobb
John Fox, Jr
Finley Peter Dunne
Winston Churchill
Leonard Wood
John T. McCutcheon

Release Date: January 21, 2008 [EBook #406]

Language: English

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Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis

by

Various Authors of Some Repute

APPRECIATIONS

Gouverneur Morris
Booth Tarkington
Charles Dana Gibson
E. L. Burlingame
Augustus Thomas
Theodore Roosevelt
Irvin S. Cobb
John Fox, Jr
Finley Peter Dunne
Winston Churchill
Leonard Wood
John T. McCutcheon

R. H. D.

BY GOUVERNEUR MORRIS

"And they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid."

He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him,
and so he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two
is middle-aged. But if R. H. D. had lived to be a hundred, he would
never have grown old. It is not generally known that the name of his
other brother was Peter Pan.

Within the year we have played at pirates together, at the taking of
sperm whales; and we have ransacked the Westchester Hills for gunsites
against the Mexican invasion. And we have made lists of guns, and
medicines, and tinned things, in case we should ever happen to go
elephant-shooting in Africa. But we weren't going to hurt the
elephants. Once R. H. D. shot a hippopotamus and he was always ashamed
and sorry. I think he never killed anything else. He wasn't that kind
of a sportsman. Of hunting, as of many other things, he has said the
last word. Do you remember the Happy Hunting Ground in "The Bar
Sinister"?--"where nobody hunts us, and there is nothing to hunt."

Experienced persons tell us that a manhunt is the most exc