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...happy as a cuckoo bird. I'm the tiger of the underbrush!" cried he. "I'm terribly bad tempered with bad tempered persons, but a lamb with the lambs, and just with the just...
...Consols and the 2% Panama Canal issues. The saving in debt service will be only a trifling $13,500,000 annually. But that was not Mr. Morgenthau's prime purpose. In one of the slickest Treasury moves in history, he was hatching not one bird but four...
...setters disgraced themselves on the same day: W. D. Albright's Silvermont which was taken up after two hours and Carl Dufield's white- &orange Buddy D. which scampered "out of judgment" for all but 15 minutes of his run. After a week, all 23 of the bird dogs which their owners considered the best in the U. S. had had a chance to follow their noses for quail over the clover and corn-stubble fields of the Hobart Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., and the judges in the 40th annual national bird-dog championship field trials...
...weather, the terrain, the supply of game put an element of luck into bird-dog trials that even the long three-hour runs in the National cannot wholly counterbalance. When Henry M. Curry's Homewood Flirtatious, paired with Doctor Blue Willing, found eight coveys and two singles on the first day of the trials, the judges might have suspected her of being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes...
Coach Wes Fesler was the victim of a practical joke by the stork when that obstetrical bird, in the guise of a Western Union messenger, brought him another little one between the halves. The mentor blushed prettily, but was seen to give an audible gasp of relief when closer inspection showed that 'twas but a doll...