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...since 1844 has a Great Auk (Alca impennis) trod the earth. It was a large flightless sea bird, slightly smaller than a goose and more docile. An expert swimmer and diver, its feet hurt so much that it often lay stretched prone on the rocks. The Auk laid only one egg a year but no two eggs were ever alike in size, shape or color...
Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
...glowing a few weeks ago when Henry Ford announced that he was increasing his production quotas, and the sentiment at that time was that this news augured well for the automobile industry as a whole. But old Dame Rumor couldn't let Ford's promising statement alone. A little bird has been informing the followers of the market that both Ford and Packard are planning to enter new candidates in the $1000 class, to compete with General Motors and Chrysler. This bit of information adds to the general gayety of the situation and at the same time throws...
...pause to even the tall, amiable president of the Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
...family. It all started with Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish on his own father's property. That led to a suspended sentence and two fistfights. But when officers of the law came to free the family pet, Grandma Goodhue's caged red bird, shot guns were taken off the wall. The posse that had set out to hang Pa Goodhue lost its nerve, but that night somebody shot him in the dark. His murderer almost got away to the war scot-free; just in time Clay found out who it was, paid the family debt...