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...around Wapello, Iowa, hunting parties beat the brush for a lion and a black panther, supposed to have been turned loose by an itinerant showman at the height of last summer's meat shortage...
...haters. The cultures are primitive, but the lives of the individuals are anything but simple. Since they lack effective agriculture, they have to depend on nature's stingy gifts, laboriously gathering everything even faintly edible. They hack down palms, make sawdusty flour out of the pith. They build brush dams across streams to trap fish. They pick up tiny seeds, break hard nuts with stones. They eat skunks, grasshoppers, alligators, armadillos...
Bright & early on Thanksgiving morn, as usual, the poor man's hunting season got its start in North Carolina. Short-legged, flop-eared beagles sniffed into brush-piles and thickets, set up a howl when they flushed a rabbit, worked it back before the hunters' guns. Some wistful old rabbit hunters were willing to settle just for the music of the hounds' high-pitched cry; others set their mouths for rabbit stew. The guns blazed away...
About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat, thick-knit build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked somewhat in the manner of a blacksmith-a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
...trick was to keep the offense off balance, mix up their blocking assignments. Michigan's defensive quarterback sometimes called for a four-man line with five backers-up. Some defense-happy coaches even thought that the unstoppable T-with its emphasis on speed, deception and "brush blocking"-was on the way to being stopped by equally unpredictable defense. But so far, the scores of a good many top T teams (among them, Notre Dame and Army) did not yet bear them...