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16th.-Lay long in dreams, and much troubled at my heart with the great owl I did kill last night while driving in Walthem. So drest myself, and back to the stump where, very sad, I left him. But, lo, the big bird was gone! Yet I know he must be dead for he did hoot violently when I to pick him up and then he to cough up some mouse's parts and then to close his white eyes and hoot no more. This I do not like too much for I have heard evil things of those witchy...
...stick on their railing to make their dogs bark. He also stoned the spinsters' cat, because he said it was after a blackbird that sang in his garden. Both sides appealed to the S. P. C. A. Then Moore set a trap for the cat. He caught the bird. (Moore told this story himself; Yeats doubts its complete integrity...
...establish undergraduate field research work, especially in the polar regions, one of Bowdoin College's outstanding, projects is the maintenance and operation of its Kent's Island (on the Bay of Funny) biological station. Manned almost entirely by undergraduates, work at this station centers upon research into the bird life on the island directed by W. A. O. Gross, Bowdoin junior. Important and interesting phases of this unusual type of undergraduate study and research are pictured here...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) is the story of a poor little foundling (Shirley Temple) washed up on the New England shore and adopted by a kindly lighthouse keeper (Guy Kibbee). Approaching her seventh birthday, the foundling is an extraordinary child. When she wakes she yodels a little song called Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken...
...swank River Oaks Country Club were novel. Not so the results. Daniel Hernandez, a freshman at the University of Mexico and his country's newest star, made Grant scramble but the best he got was one set to Grant's three. Esteban Reyes, nicknamed "Pajaro" (Bird), Mexico's No. 1, got five games in three sets against Budge. Next day, Allison played 18 holes of near-par golf, joined his partner Van Ryn to run through Flavio Martinez and Marco Antonio Mestre 6-0, 6-2, went back to the links for another nine holes which...