make them hunters, though sportsmen only at first, if possible, mighty hunters at last, so that they shall not find game large enough for them in this or any vegetable wilderness⁠—hunters as well as fishers of men. Thus far I am of the opinion of Chaucer’s nun, who

“yave not of the text a pulled hen

That saith that hunters ben not holy men.”

“yave not of the text a pulled hen That saith that hunters ben not holy men.”

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