Word: gizzards
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...every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...
...then Vag closed the book and remembered what day it was, and ran over to the dining room and ate four turkey legs and a gizzard...
...Seattle, Wash., Mrs. William Morgan had a $100 diamond pecked from her ring while she was feeding her poultry. In hopes of recovering it, the Morgan family cooked and carefully chewed a chicken a day for 18 days. The diamond was finally found in a rooster's gizzard...
...eyes of Peter Giachino, a gunner of Raymboultown, Mich., popped one day last week when he took out the innards of a partridge he had shot. Coiled in the bird's gullet, still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...
...Salina, Kan., Mrs. Bert Phelps prepared a Gore County chicken for cooking. Frugally, as well as to give Mr. Phelps a giblet he likes, she split the hen's gizzard, peeled out the musk. In the olive green debris were flecks of metallic yellow. A jeweler found them, gold, worth...