Philip Hart wrote: > The question might be, is there free forested land not overrun by nasty > Dragaeran wildlife near enough to make transport of venison easy enough to > make it economical for street merchants, even those catering to a wealthy > clientele, to serve it instead of domesticated meat? Also note that > Dragaeran hunters use neither bows/arrows (is this true?) or firearms. > Other forms of deer hunting which I'm vaguely familiar with are extremely > uneconomical. I'm not sure we know enough. Doesn't the chreotha(?) use a form of psionics to lure prey to their nets? I suspect a similar method could be used to lure deer (darr?:) to their end. Of course, envisioning a hunter walking into Dragaera playing a pipe with a herd of deer following sheep-like behind him doesn't quite lend itself to a sense of decorum, but if it puts the venison on the table... Just a thought. <grin> :0 Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'