Parallels to the Winter at Valley ForgeArchived Message
Posted by John Kuhn Bleimaier on January 2, 2017, 10:42 pm, in reply to "After Christmas Shoot"
“That was the weather that tried men's souls. The summer skeeter and the sunshine trap shot, in the face of such precipitation, shrank from the gathering of his fellows. But he that stood at the firing line in the snow, sleet & rain, deserves the love and admiration of all Elsie aficionados. Pervasive cold and damp are not easily conquered; yet we at Lehigh Valley had this consolation with us, that the harder the conditions, the more glorious the triumph. The recreation we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is hardship of attainment and discomfort only that give every good thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon our pleasures; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as a round of sporting clays shot with a classic American sidelock should not be dearly bought.”
John Kuhn Bleimaier (with apologies to Thomas Paine)