Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 193 | To be View more quotes about sure">sure many tarns are domesticated, so to speak, raised from the egg in the vicinity of humans, taught to expect their food from them, accustomed to harnessing from the age of the chick, and so on. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 190 | Many human beings will not approach them. |
| 3 | 191 | It, like many wild beasts, can sense fear, and that stimulates its aggression. |
| 3 | 192 | In facing a tarn a human being has little but will to place between himself and the beak and talons. |
| 3 | 193 | To be sure many tarns are domesticated, so to speak, raised from the egg in the vicinity of humans, taught to expect their food from them, accustomed to harnessing from the age of the chick, and so on. |
| 3 | 194 | In the past domestic tarns were sometimes freed, to hunt in the wild, and later to return to their cots, sometimes to the blasts of the tarn whistle. |
| 3 | 195 | That is seldom done now. |
| 3 | 196 | A hungry tarn is quite dangerous, you see, and the reed of its domesticity is fragile. |
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Many human beings will not approach them.
It, like many wild beasts, can sense fear, and that stimulates its aggression.
In facing a tarn a human being has little but will to place between himself and the beak and talons.
To be sure many tarns are domesticated, so to speak, raised from the egg in the vicinity of humans, taught to expect their food from them, accustomed to harnessing from the age of the chick, and so on.
In the past domestic tarns were sometimes freed, to hunt in the wild, and later to return to their cots, sometimes to the blasts of the tarn whistle.
That is seldom done now.
A hungry tarn is quite dangerous, you see, and the reed of its domesticity is fragile.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)