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...would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty bird that once roamed the island. Wrapping the prize in his loincloth, he ran with it to the chief of his village. Word of the find sped from hut to drowsy hut, and after sundown the natives jubilantly shouted and danced the war dance which they call the berida...
...might value it for their own curious reasons. That night the chief and a few companions carried the egg to Ambovombe. After hours of haggling a merchant gave them five head of cattle for it. This man recognized the egg as that of the extinct Aepyornis titan or elephant bird, a long-necked creature with massive legs on which it stood ten feet high. From his hands the egg passed to the French administrator of the district, to another merchant, to a missionary named Gunerius Torvic. Last month Missionary Torvic reached Minnesota on leave, got in touch with an enthusiastic...
...about a foot long, about ten inches across, ivory-colored, pockmarked by sand and insects. Much bigger than the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, its shell is ⅛ in. thick, weighs 6 lb., must have weighed 24 lb. when the mother bird laid it. Aepyornis titan did not become extinct until after the Glacial Ages, which is almost yesterday as geological time goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably snakes and lizards too. In Madagascar during the past century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have...
...summary: HARVARD ST. GEORGE'S Legg, r.f. l.g., Smith Bakst, r.f. l.g., Chester Lutz, l.f. r.g., E. Thayer Stobbelaar, l.f. c., J. Thayer White, c. l.f., Dorrance Bird, c. l.f., Bell Maguire, r.g. r.f., Lipincott Kothe, r.g. Stewart, r.g. Cordingly, l.g. Perry, l.g. Hinchliff...
Goals--Harvard: Lutz 5, Cordingly 3, Bird 2, Legg 2, Maguire 2, Hinchliff 1, Stobblaar 1. St. George's: E. Thayer 3, Lipincott 1, J. Thayer...