And the point of the article is?
Answer: A city-fied pansy-waisted metrosexual’s ideas, splashed all over the page with one hand, ahem. “Oh, don’t hurt that Bear! I don’t care how long it has been going on, it needs to stop!”
Sorry *you* missed the point.
The article speaks to the long standing, time-honored traditions found at checking stations.
We have long lost the sharing of hunting stories ‘round the pot-bellied stove at the general store.
If you read and skim....you can *erase* the liberalese and take out the good.
*Excerpts from ‘The Black Bear of Pennsylvania’ by Henry W. Shoemaker and John C. French, Printed 1921, in Altoona, by the Times Tribune Company.