bitter-true

Updated: June 14, 2025

Hunters and sportsmen were coming in from the North; prospectors with them, their faces foil of mystery, their pockets full of samples, like prospectors the world over. They had already been wearing wolf and coon skin coats. There is no humour in the old, bitter-true stovepipe jests of the comic papers. But the railways the wonderful railways told the winter's tale most emphatically.

Rudyard Kipling - Letters of Travel (1892-1913)