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...Wake Forest College...
...eleventh night the Captain heard the thud of paws, flashed his electric torch on a black and yellow Presence with jewel eyes that leaped out of the forest upon the goat's back. His rifle roared; he knew that his aim had been true, but when he sprang forward to look he found the goat lying dead in a pool of blood with the marks of incredible claws in his back. There was nothing else, no dead marauder. The captain turned upon his gunbearer a face in which horror whitely flickered. Could it be?...
...little Alverna is soon revealed in her true cosmetics?an incorrigible, shallow flirt, bored stiff by Joe's backwoodsmanhood. She tempts Prescott until he has to run away to save his honor; then she overtakes him and completes the seduction. The runaways are pursued through the wilderness by a forest fire and Joe Easter, the fire hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches up. Joe has been cleaned out by tricky Indians and now offers 1) to save his good friend Prescott from foolish Alverna; 2) to commit...
...Committee voted, however, 15 to 1-the U. S. abstaining and Germany voting contra, mundum- that "peacetime effectives" be understood not to mean "trained reservists" or war material to equip them, but to include "military forces under the colors, police, forest guards and any other such organization . . . available without measures of mobilization...
Some of the characterizations can be described by no other word than "immense" in its slangiest sense. Andrew Jackson, rest his democratic soul, is an "old turkey cock, on a forest rock" and later on "his face was a talon, his hands were talons." You do not need to collect postage stamps to know that Andrew Jackson did look like that. Jezebel puts on her various guards and jewels and "stopped the honest prophets as they marched upon their...