CHAPTER 11
Courage is the ability to resist fear, to dominate fear:
it is not the absence of fear.
(Mark Twain)
The roar of the shot was loud and broke with unprecedented force the silence of the forest. The ball of the blunderbuss, which hit the boar between the eye and the ear, was not enough to bring the animal down, but stimulated its aggressiveness even more. The barking of the dogs made Giovanni realize who the injured animal was taking it with. He leaped out of the bush to observe the scene, just in time to see one of the bloodhounds stabbed by the treacherous tusks and thrown into the air, finally weeding to the ground, lifeless. The other dog, although wounded and bleeding on one side of his chest, continued to pounce on the beast, trying to bite it in the paws. This last one
