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...Democrat, eh?" I pressed him. "The Hurley bird is worth two in the Bushnell. Or do you think if Willkie wins it will all come out in the Walsh...
John James Audubon migrated up & down early 19th-Century North America about as freely as the birds he painted. When he was not padding through the Kentucky forest or slinking about bird-abundant Feliciana Parish, he was flat-boating on the Mississippi and Ohio, exploring Florida's St. Johns River or sailing along Louisiana's Gulf Coast. In Labrador he hunted seals, in the Dakotas buffalo. He traveled up the Big Muddy to the Rocky Mountains. Everywhere he painted birds magnificently, sometimes painted animals almost as well...
Audubon writings include sporadic journals, letters, accounts of his meetings with Frontiersman Daniel Boone, Naturalist-Bird Painter Alexander Wilson, eccentric Naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. There are lively descriptions of coon, possum, bear and cougar hunts, bird biographies, racy reporting of the frontier's human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes...
...Yale's Bird, who did not run cross country last year and turned in only a fair time of 10:36 in winning the Harvard-Yale Freshman two mile race last spring, has been the consistent star of the New Haven runners this fall...
Sophomore Bill Bird of the Blue won first place honors in covering the course in 27 minutes, 22 seconds, leading Harvard's Captain Lang Burwell by more than 100 yards. Mort Rehm was the first Princeton man as he took third place in 27:43, three seconds behind Burwell...