Carolina Quotes[A] man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 4 (p. 44)
- work
- The Old Man and the Boy (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- p. 44
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