“On countless occasions we have wanted to disrepair your slingshots, ‘blunten’ your swords and daggers, and turn your gun barrels into jelly, since none of these things are beyond our ability to affect. There are many occasions in these worrisome days, and there have been many times in the past, when we would have loved to do just that. But it is not our job to ‘take your chestnuts out of the fire’, and still you would use sticks or stones instead. The hurt goes on. | “On countless occasions we have wanted to disrepair your slingshots, ‘blunten’ your swords and daggers, and turn your gun barrels into jelly, since none of these things are beyond our ability to affect. There are many occasions in these worrisome days, and there have been many times in the past, when we would have loved to do just that. But it is not our job to ‘take your chestnuts out of the fire’, and still you would use sticks or stones instead. The hurt goes on. |