"Look," he said, almost mildly. "Perhaps you're not up on these things. You haven't been told who's who and what's what. I am Biggar the White Hunter, the most famous White Hunter in all Africa and Indonesia. I can stand without a tremor in the path of an onrushing rhino - and why? Because my eyesight is so superb that I know - I know I can get him in that one vulnerable spot before he has come within sixty paces. That's the sort of eyesight mine is."
Jeeves maintained his iron front.
"I fear I cannot recede from my position, sir. I grant that you may have trained your vision for such a contingency as you have described, but, poorly informed as I am on the subject of the larger fauna of the East, I do not believe that rhinoceri are equipped with license numbers."
(from
Ring For Jeeves, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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