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.
I've read stories where wounded buff will head down a trail, set up an ambush by hiding off to the side and when the tracker and hunter come along after it, it attacks. Quite cunning for what looks like a dull , stupid brute of an animal! A very worthy adversary, indeed!
Syncerus Caffer. The Joined Horn Infidel. In the world of Big Game Hunting he has an impressive tally in the Win column.
ReplyDelete'Courage,' I assume you mean the photographer. (That and crazy with a death wish.)
ReplyDeleteThe buff is simply a thick skull, and a will-still-kill-you-even-after-it's-dead ornery persistence.
ReplyDeleteThe only way I'd take that photo would be through the firing slit, from inside a WWII concrete pillbox.
I've read stories where wounded buff will head down a trail, set up an ambush by hiding off to the side and when the tracker and hunter come along after it, it attacks. Quite cunning for what looks like a dull , stupid brute of an animal! A very worthy adversary, indeed!
ReplyDeleteIs that blood beside the eye?
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