What Eats People: The Complete List, Revised: Part 5


In his memoir of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce recounts an interesting incident of scavenging:

There were bear galore and deer in quantity, and many a winter day, in snow up to his knees, did the writer of this pass in tracking bruin to his den, where, I am bound to say, I commonly left him. I agreed with my lamented friend, the late Robert Weeks, poet:

Pursuit may be, it seems to me,
Perfect without possession.

There can be no doubt that the wealthy sportsmen who have made a preserve of the Chea...
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Published on January 22, 2010 11:23
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