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...Brookfield Dumb-Bell, named for the lemon dumbbell-shaped splotch on his side, was a runt. But he was a champion's son and when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon...
...Brookfield Dumb-Bell lived only in John Taintor Foote's classic story, Dumb-Bell of Brookfield, but last week from Georgia came proof that Author Foote's tale was no fantasy. Out for quail with a friend's three bird dogs were Paul T. Chance, an Augusta lawyer, and his two sons. After a covey rise, some of the single birds settled in a small ravine beside a railroad culvert. When Brilliant Joe, an 8-year-old setter, reached the top of the railroad embankment, he saw that one of his mates, a young pointer...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Dr. Myron Anson Warriner, 79, went back 48 years to recall the autumn day when as a young North Brookfield, Mass, practitioner three years out of Harvard Medical School, he was called to attend a sturdy French huntsman named LeTourneau who had accidentally blown off his face with a shotgun. The man's family and another physician, an old Army man, agreed with the young doctor on the best thing to do. Dr. Warriner gave the mangled huntsman a fatal dose of morphine...
Half vexed, half amused was old Dr. Warriner when the Law and LeTourneau's family promptly uprose to challenge his bold confession. In North Brookfield the dead man's two spinster daughters, aged 54 and 52, declared that their father had died of loss of blood, that he had been attended not by Dr. Warriner but by the Army man whom he had mentioned as his consultant. In Worcester, undeterred by the impossibility of producing a corpus delicti, a district attorney sped a State detective to North Brookfield to investigate the 48-year-old death. The detective shortly...
...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, whence Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley last fortnight was discharged for letting a deadly Bandy-Bandy snake disappear completely (TIME, Sept. 30), zoo attendants combed the reptile house, while police prowled over surrounding country, mothers kept their children indoors. Finally, a cleaning man swept up the loose leaves that had blown into the reptile house, picked up an armful with Bandy-Bandy asleep in their midst. Meanwhile ebullient ex-Curator Wiley advised Chicagoans who want to bathe rattlesnakes, "Get them in a good humor first and then bathe in lukewarm water. They like...