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...Bristol Channel, also called "Puffin Island." Both half and whole puffins bear the likeness of Martin Coles Harman, Esq., London merchant, who bought Puffin Island in 1925 and plays at being its king. On the "tails" side of a puffin is the head of a puffin (sea bird with a parrotlike beak and white cheeks). Puffin Islanders also have puffin stamps. red and green, in puffin and half-puffin de nominations, each having a handsome steel engraving of a puffin perched on a rock...
...Wingshooting, Cont." (Letters, Dec. 30, p. 4). "The gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird." Wrong and right. It is necessary to both lead and follow through, or the duck supper will be a pork roast...
...hard ball flying like a trapped bird in a courtyard with smooth stone walls, its floor marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men-such was the game the oldtime Aztecs played and drew pictures of on the rock walls of Central American amphitheatres. Hernan Cortes took it back to Andalusia, whence it penetrated the Pyrenees and the people called it pelota (ball). The game became the main diversion of so many festivals that the Basques gave it another name, now mispronounced all over the world, meaning "merry festival"-jai alai (pronounced high...
Last month at a Washington meeting of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Advisory Board a resolution to reduce the bag limit was passed. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde announced that upon his recommendation the duck-bag will be reduced from 25 to 15 per day; the geese-bag from 8 to 4. The possession limit will be 30 ducks, 8 geese...
...What is that which is fourfooted, three-footed and two-footed?" That horrendous bogey, the ancient Theban Sphinx, who had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...