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Stewed in Claret

We mean the nimble Nimrod who can beat any squirrel, black, red, gray or green, around a tree trunk and then make him into an epochal squirrel pie quick as a cat can wink its eye. For any sure-shot who knows the difference between his goose-honker and a crow call can also tell you right off the trigger that Rocky Mountain sheep steak calls for toast as loudly as any quail, but the toast for wild mutton must be soaked in Madeira wine and not merely buttered. He knows, too, that a prairie hen can outcrow a barnyard rooster when she's stewed in claret.

Here's proof, painstakingly penned by a French Canuck guide: