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Straight shooting.(COUNTRY LIFE)(hunting)
From: National Review
Date: 20061120
Author:Brookhiser, Richard
IT is a convention of popular art that animals welcome their own demise. The merry grilling pig decorates many a rib shack. Now is the time of year in my valley when bars, diners, and motels sprout orange banners, decorated with buck heads, and the message: WELCOME HUNTERS.
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In The Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper, Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook, aging icons of the French and Indian Wars, get in trouble in the 1790s for taking a deer out of season. Their plight symbolizes the grave march of civilization. Two hundred plus years later, civilization ...
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