At 10:21 AM 10/12/99 EDT, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>In a message dated 11/10/1999 14:34:58 GMT Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
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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!
>
>
But then again maybe some peasants stoll something from the aristocrat?
Gordon Fisher [log in to unmask]
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