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...editor in charge of the purchase of this cultivated bird, confessed to an inquiring Crimson reporter, that it is prerequisite that the parrot be able to swear in the conventional manner, and that he also be able to discuss life and letters in an intelligent way with the members of the Advocate Board...
Whether the bird is to be initiated and admitted to a full editorship on the Advocate was not revealed in the interview. As it is proposed, however, that the parrot will receive the finishing touches to his linguistic education after he has been established in the Advocate building, and since these touches will be supplied by present members of the board, it must be assumed that the bird. if not admitted to full editorship, will play the part of confidante and friend...
Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week...
...turning up at backwoods settlements, bearded, his pockets bulging, his underclothes gone. The latter he had used up for gun wads. His pockets contained bird skins, sheafs of notes, manuscript. He was the naturalist, John James Audubon, whose grandmanner personality made credentials unnecessary. He had a family down in Kentucky which he supported as best he could in the years when, at one with the wilderness as few men were before or after him, he was "unknown" in the U. S. He took his magnificent work to Edinburgh and was made a member of the Royal Academy. He executed...
...equitator, when asked to tell what thrush, a disease of the hoof is, described it as a "small, brown bird, frequently seen around the stables." Another student of hippology defined the pastern as a "French scientist, famous for his Institute." A third Freshman came to the captain and complained that his horse would not open its mouth and seize the bit, although he had been holding it out to him for five minutes...