SC - Not eating cute furry animalsy

[Radigan Leoncouer]

 actually I was referring to an earlier missive, whereby the writer stated that his father/uncle
tacked LIVE rabbits to a door/wall BEFORE performing
the...shall we say: 'Coup De grace?'

As to whose colony you are why m'dear whom d'y supose?
Gadzooks! Such Cheek!
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:04:27  
 Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>Jenne Heise wrote:
>> 
>> >  'Tacked 'em to the wall' you say?  Now what was the driving purpose behind that I ask you?
>> > Just another indication of the level of 'civilization' and 'sentience' in you colonials....or lack of mores
>> > the reason..
>> >
>> 
>> There's a passage in Kipling's _Puck of Pook's Hill_ that describes the
>> skins of caught animals nailed to the gamekeeper's house wall. Of course,
>> I don't think they were alive when they were nailed there.
>
>I always understood that tacking up pelts was a preservation technique,
>essentially drying them before proceeding. By the way, whose colony am I
>supposed to be part of?
>
>Adamantius
>-- 
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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