An Outdoor Living article on the fierceness of wild boars brings to mind “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” which features a dramatic boar hunt.
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Tag Archives: hunting
The Most Dangerous Game: Wild Pigs
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Sleeping Bears?! What Would Papa Say?
The GOP’s decision to allow the hunting of hibernating bears and denned wolf cubs raises issues of wannabe machismo that one can find in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”
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Aslan and Cecil the Lion’s Death
The death of Cecil the Lion conjures up images of Aslan in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” and of the lion in Ernest Hemingway’s “Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”
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A Sleepy Bird Dog Ballad
Here’s a fun poem about a sleepy hunting dog, written many years ago by Scott Bates in the regional dialect tradition.
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