Got an Anthon's Horace published 1811 that I have read but it's not a daily thing (into Tacitus now). A Lewis and Short Latin dictionary inscribed by Louise Chase July 7, 1901, and that does get frequent use. We have some very elegant 19th century furniture, said to have come west in a prairie schooner, but none of the kids want it. Our mothers-to-be as young ladies about to enter into matrimony had china patterns and silverware patterns, and spent a great deal of time and emulation building up whole sets - the young ladies of today hear of this with a kind of blank disbelief: women wanted what when they got married? Really? My contemporary couple friends all wonder what they'll do with that stuff - we got it from our mothers, who were believers, and stored it and stored it and never used it, and now there is none of our broods who will even accept it - or who has a house big enough to store it pointlessly for another 3 or 4 decades, as we have done.
My rifle first saw the light as a 1903A3 Springfield in 1943. It came to me (big money - took a lot of savings - $35) in 1963. As an iron-sight 2-groove it would hold 1.25 MOA; I remember my surprise when I picked out a rock in the Rio Grande, far below and in the distance, slid the rear sight up and held high and into the wind from my point on the cliff-edge, fired, and in something like a full second, saw rockdust rise from the rock. Along the way the rifle gathered a sporting stock, got a primitive but determined Weaver K-4 scope, lost me the critical First Girlfriend ("I get the message. You'd rather spend money on that rifle than see me."), has brought in many deer and elk, became the condensation nucleus for many stories, and gathered a nickname to itself: Old Flintheart. He will still hold about 1.25 MOA.
