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Quotes About Huntsmen

Some say we came God's purpose to fulfil - Faith a poor purpose then, if so you will; Sport for the heavenly huntsmen, others say, - Sorry the sport, methinks, and poor the skill.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX A Wild Boar was engaged in whetting his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a Fox came by and, seeing what he was at, said to him, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out to-day, and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger I shall need to use my tusks. There'll be no time to sharpen them then.
~ Aesop
There were three jolly huntsmen,As I have heard them say,And they would go a-huntingUpon St. David's Day.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
~ Gene Fowler