In a message dated 11/10/1999 14:34:58 GMT Daylight Time,
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<< And of course one hunts peasants in winter. >>
But see the (apocryphal?) anecdote about a russian aristocrat who was
houseguest of the Tennysons. On coming back from a morning strole with his
gun it was enqired if he had shot anything. "Oh, only a couple of peasants" -
"Surely, old boy, you mean _pheasants_ " - No, peasants. The fellows were
insolent, so I shot them".
BTW I seem to remember hearing an eminent German scholar lecturing in
Cambridge mentioning a statue of a god which held in its hand a "cornucopia -
the symbol of futility".
And quite right too!
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