As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter...........
How a man acts when confronted with danger is the metal of the man. I share this account of George Washington to express the kind of Gentleman he was.
Like all true sportsmen Washington had a horror of illicit sport of any kind, and although he shot comparatively little, he was much annoyed by a vagabond who lurked in the creeks and inlets on his estate, and slaughtered his canvas-back ducks.
Hearing the report of a gun one morning, he rode through the bushes and saw his poaching friend just shoving off in a canoe. The rascal raised his gun and covered his pursuer, whereupon Washington, the cold-blooded and patient person so familiar in the myths, dashed his horse headlong into the water, seized the gun, grasped the canoe, and dragging it ashore pulled the man out of the boat and beat him soundly.
If the man had yielded at once he would probably have got off easily enough, but when he put Washington's life in imminent peril, the wild fighting spirit flared up as usual.
Henry Cabot Lodge. George Washington
George Washington is a standard by whom all should compare the rust of the modern occupants of power with the metal of this Gentleman.
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