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...another time Mr. Powys had accused an African "Man of God" of stealing goats and had been heartily cursed in return. That night, as he lay in the dark, he heard a ghastly laugh, he writes, "long and loud, whining and wailing up from the forest, up from the gully, so I judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat...
...passage, Mr, Powys recounts talking with a Kikuyu who asked him solemnly if he were aware that elephants had once been men: "He looked so serious when he asked the question that, on my soul, I was half inclined to believe him. I tell you in that darkening forest with the rustling of the tropical leaves about me and the indefinable stir of the oncoming night audible everywhere, it seemed more than possible that I was about to hear the authentic story of the origin of man." This may serve to illustrate, in a small measure, the eerie quality...
Analysis of loadings for the Aug. 2 week discloses the fact that grain and grain products increased 6,741 cars over the preceding week to 56,702 cars; livestock was down 777 cars at 26,468; coal decreased 1,192 to 144,865; ore rose 121 to 54,644; forest products rose 1,137 to 66,812, and merchandise and miscellaneous freight increased 1,434 to a total of 239,804 cars...
Peering intently from beneath her perky white visor, crafty Helen Wills, of California, kept track of every tennis ball that came whizzing her way at Forest Hills, L. I. When she had dealt firmly with the last one, she was still national singles champion and, with Mrs. George Wightman, of Philadelphia, national doubles champion...
...winds arose and the rain fell and the Sokie River flooded forth over the Onwentsia Golf Course at Lake Forest, Ill. The draggled women who were playing there for the Western Championship cleaned out their lockers at the clubhouse, bundled their powder puffs, dry stockings and extra hairpins over to the Shore Acres Club, farther up Lake Michigan, held their second and third round matches on its higher ground...