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...named Bideawee, Restawhile, Dewdrop Inn. There are several faintly classic concert & lecture halls, a huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat, play golf or tennis, swim every day but Sunday. Revolt...
They named the owl Manhattan, put it in Vibrato's cage for company. When the ship docked in New York last week both of them wanted to keep it. The ship's captain, called to arbitrate, tossed a shilling, sent the bird to Staten Island. Ornithologists identified the bird, which the ship's crew had called an "ice owl," as an American hawk owl, a dark, small-eyed, falcon-like creature slightly smaller than a crow, which breeds in the Arctic, sometimes winters as far south as the U. S., never goes...
...BIRD OF DAWNING-John Masefield-Macmillan...
John Masefield. Poet Laureate of England, has developed into such a gently archaic poet that readers of his laureations are apt to forget his hard, seafaring youth. But Masefield himself has not forgotten; ships have always been his lights-o'-love, and in The Bird of Dawning he returns to them with his old youthful fervor. This tale of clipper ships of the China sea trade, just before the days when steam swept sail from the seas, would make a young man's reputation, should shore up old Poet Masefield's against the seeping criticisms of sentimental...
...fair chance of making it till he discovered how much of their boat's stores were ruined or missing. Then there was nothing for it but to keep going as long as they could. Luckily in a few days they sighted one of their rival clippers, The Bird of Dawning, hove to and deserted. The skipper had gone crazy, faked a hopeless leak and frightened his crew into the boats. Short-handed as they were, the boat's crew of the Blackganntlet turned to and sailed her home, not knowing till they reached mid-Channel whether they were...