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.
Growing up, the county farm agents would pay $1 a tail for coyotes and $5 for the front right paw of a bobcat, IIRC. I don’t know of any kids that got rich in my neighborhood.
north american bobcat pelt brought ~$400 IIRC kinda far back.
ReplyDeleteHe has tufts on his ears. Doesn't that make him a lynx? Looks kinda big for a bobcat, to my way of thinking ...
DeleteThis cool cat is fat and (probably) sassy.
ReplyDeleteThey were put on bounties almost to extinction in the old days.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up, the county farm agents would pay $1 a tail for coyotes and $5 for the front right paw of a bobcat, IIRC. I don’t know of any kids that got rich in my neighborhood.
DeleteIn the sixties I could get $2 for a muskrat pelt, $5 for a racoon pelt.
DeleteThat sure beats 5 cents for a Coke bottle!
DeleteBob has his winter coat on.
ReplyDelete“Come and take it.”
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