quote source

[Michele Missner <missnerm@ATHENET.NET>]

I am trying to find the source of a quote by William Francis Butler
(1872).  This man wrote several books and it would be helpful if someone
out there knew which book this one came from off hand!!!

"it is difficult to find in life any event which so effectually condenses
nervous sensation into the shortest possible space of time as does the
work of shooting, or running an immense rapid.  There is no toil no
heartbreaking labour about it, but as much coolness, dexterity, and skill
as man can throw into the work of hand, eye, and head; knowledge of when
to strike and how to do it; knowledge of water and rock, and of the one
hundred things, rock and water, taken in the abstract, fail as completely
to convey any idea of their fierce embracings in the throes of a rapid as
the fire burning quietly in a drawing-room fireplace fails to convey the
idea of a house wrapeed and sheeted in flames."

Thank you.  Michele


Michele W. Missner,
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