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Updated: May 23, 2025
To the average American, the slaughter of half-tame elk, deer and birds that have been bred in a preserve does not appeal in the least.
He stole a glance at Bosinney, whose eyes, the eyes of the coachman's 'half-tame leopard, seemed running wild over the landscape. The sunlight had caught the promontories of the fellow's face, the bumpy cheekbones, the point of his chin, the vertical ridges above his brow; and Soames watched this rugged, enthusiastic, careless face with an unpleasant feeling.
There are Kurds and Kurds and Kurds, nations within a nation, speaking many dialects of one tongue. Some of them are half-tame and live on the plains; those the Turks are able to draft into their armies to some extent. Some of the plainsmen, like those I speak of now, are altogether wild and will not serve the Turks on any terms. And most of the hillmen prefer to shoot a Turk on sight.
Neither I nor he were shooters, and while battues were in progress, and guns were sounding daily at no very great distance, he walked me about the park, declaring that modern castles which stood for nothing but the slaughter of half-tame birds were examples of a civilization completely gone astray.
"Well," he admitted, "by all accounts you English have achieved liberty; but, per Baccu, you do strange things with it!" "Blackbirds, to begin with," he resumed, "and foxes, and a hare, maybe. Then in the next valley there are boars small, and wild, and fierce, but our great half-tame ones have driven them off this mountain. After them we will extend ourselves and stalk for deer."
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