SC - Not eating cute furry animalsy
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Mon Apr 16 09:04:27 PDT 2001
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
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Phil & Susan Troy
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