Carolina QuotesI bear scars on wrist and soul from being chewed by а leopard who would have been dead if my gun's ammunition had fulfilled its basic purpose. But we picked the buckshot out of the cat's hide like currants from a bun. I choked the leopard to death with the shotgun, which doesn't work anymore.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 174
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
- locator
- p. 174
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“I bear scars on wrist and soul from being chewed by а leopar…” Robert Ruark. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-3082A6ACE8. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/3082a6ace8
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