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...deer with which Mr. Lorillard had stocked the place grew so tame that they ate out of people's hands, ceased to be sporting shots. Partridge, pheasants, turkeys took off for good over the park's eight-foot fence. The striped bass in the lake were soon depleted. But Mr. Lorillard built a golf course and a toboggan slide...
...Longhorns were descendants of those Spanish cattle which Columbus brought into the West on his second voyage. They evolved in the Mexican wilderness, perfected themselves in Texas. They had racehorse legs and tails that dragged the ground and defter noses than deer, being able to scent water at ten miles...
...only apparent obstacle to the shipment of food is the attitude of Winston Churchill, who is firm in his conviction of twenty years that what goes in the front door of the democracies may be taken out the back deer to feed the Nazi armies...
...dead Munich painter named Franz Marc. Just before the outbreak of World War I, sad-eyed Franz Marc became disgusted with human beings, decided to spend the rest of his life painting animals. He painted pink and blue horses prancing in quiet landscapes, garish dogs, tigers, monkeys, cows and deer. Germans regarded him as one of the topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world of reality. From the Western Front he wrote his wife: "Early in my life I found man ugly...
...expert archers who gathered for the five-day hunt through Chattahoochee's forests and tangled rhododendron "hells" got lots of sage advice from Ranger Woody: >-"The way to get a deer is to find a gap and then sit down and wait. A gap is a low place between mountain peaks. It is a place both deer and humans seek to cross mountains. Deer are just as lazy as humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then...