SC - Not eating cute furry animalsy

[Jenne Heise]

> > 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. 

In the reference in Kipling, it did not seem that the pelts were being preserved, as the
older ones were in an advanced state of dilapidation (Of course I can't remember
Kipling's turn of phrase....*shakes head*)

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at mail.browser.net
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