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...destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...
...more example of Republican corruption to strut before the people; if the case could not be prepared in a year, the Montana Senator will get the credit for proving the Statute of Limitations an unwise law. Whichever barrel of the gun goes off. Senator Walsh will kill a political bird...
Every state in the Union has a specialty, a featured output or possession, which is the twig upon which that bright bird, sectional pride, may sit to preen its feathers. To Oregon its apples, Texas its longhorns, Kansas its jayhawks; the wheat-farms of Minnesota, the sandlots of Florida, the mammy-songs of Alabama and the golden whales of California. And Indiana, the lilac and honeysuckle state of Indiana, whose breeze is thick with fancies as its gardens are with bees-Indiana is the nursery of writers. So many are the literary people who have come from Indiana that when...
...They must think I'm a bird. It's my feet, my mouth, and my eradi- cation they want. Some of them call me a dumbbell. They will soon find out how dumb...
...performs remarkably because of fine physical development and temperament coupled with a very fast visual and muscular reaction. His success comes without the need of hard thought and practice in overcoming the details--he does them instinctively. When he tries coaching he may be successful with that rare bird, one of his own kind, but he cannot impart his strength, imitative ability and quick reaction to the average man and he has never gone clear through be difficulties and mental processes which the average man must master to become proficient at his position. The natural player depends mainly on physical...