And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The elk teeth give the clothes a nice touch. It reminds me of a Kipling poem of roughly the same time period, written about a different place.
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."
Mule Woman would skin you and cut your nards off while you're awake and aware.
The elk teeth give the clothes a nice touch. It reminds me of a Kipling poem of roughly the same time period, written about a different place.
ReplyDelete"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."
Mule Woman would skin you and cut your nards off while you're awake and aware.
Now that's a mental image!
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