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...Orango, youthful village butcher, just turned cowpuncher, enters an adobe hut in Chihuahua, Mexico, rendezvous of the smart sporting fraternity. He sits down to a quiet game. Presently an Army officer questions his play. Orango smiles. The officer cries "cheat," and Orango .shoots Mm dead across the table. Orango dashes out, jumps on a horse, and rides into the night-covered mountains-no longer Orango, but Francisco Villa, bandit, known to his friends as La Cucaracha, "the cockroach...
...Thoreau's little hut by Walden Pond he treasured a single ornament- a fine specimen of granite, cut and polished by himself. To enjoy its delicate markings, Thoreau had to dust the stone every day. At length he decided that the time spent in polishing the little block was out of all proportion to its value; it was needlessly cluttering his life. So one day pitched it into the middle of the pond...
...pictured ocean, piers, real sand, snappy shops, etc. all different with many colored awnings, wheel chairs, theatre with performances twice daily. "The Hut" in the basement with its cafeteria, and war mementos, fortune tellers, salt water taffy, and countless other attractions will give the people of New England many of the experiences of a trip to Atlantic City, with none of the inconveniences of traveling...
After all, it is probably pleasanter to sit by the warm fire of a cold winter's evening, and imagine one's self lolling on the "paepae" of some picturesque Marquesan hut, listening to the chatter of Exploding Eggs, the native valet, and Chief Seventh Man Who Is So Angry He Wallows in The Mud, than it would be to explore in the flesh those far-away places, to broll under the tropic sun, flee from the shark and the enraged swordlish, or suffer the stings of the "nones" in deserted Haapa, where the last dregs of the Typee race...
...almost every turn. The days of melodrama for melodrama's sake have passed; so that when, in these latter days, the life of a man hangs on the howling of a dog, and a matter-of-fact balloon trip culminates in a fist fight in a North Canadian log hut, there is a natural desire to seek out the "whys and wherefores" that lie beneath the surface...