Ladies and Gentlemen,

Her is one for the book worms

Can you tell me who wrote the following:

"Never before have the reading public been invited to view the other side of the pivture. Hitherto the sportsman had been accorded all the sympathy and applause and the "savage brute" or "cunning varmint" been denied all privilages, even that of existing. This depite that hunting with weapons of percision was never a very dangerous pastime and most instances the sportsman in pursuit of the most ferocious game was a good deal safer than rock-climber or racing motorist. It began to seem to loverws of fair play that the cards were stacked against the animal and that its overthrow was hardly more commendable than the destructions of lions in the Roman amphitheater by degenater emperors who did their killing from the security of a lofty gallery....African white hunters would pilot delicately fashionable ladies into the wilds to shoot the giants, and return them without harm to their complexions or apparel. The motor car has put big game hunting in the same category as pheasant-shooting and lawn tennis"

[ 05-21-2003, 11:29: Message edited by: Saeed ]

Saeed,

I challenge Terry Carr to find this one...it will give him something to do today!

I don't remember seeing this quote but is similar to the those written by the mid-century hunyers who lamented the changes in their environment.

Will

Karen Blixen?

Bjorn Klappe & Alfred E. Neuman, in collaboration.

Ruark.

John Hunter

My guess is FRED EVERETT.
Springbok

Dennis Finch Haten -- From "Out of Africa". I am not sure about the spelling. Good shooting.