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.
It also brings to mind the grayling, which I also have never caught on a fly rod.
ReplyDeleteWhen the fish dies, the colors turn to a dull dark gray. Any taxidermist mounting this fish has to paint the fins.
ReplyDelete....yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
ReplyDeleteAmen.
DeleteCatch and release?
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