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...then, Ed had been in state politics for more than 40 years. He had been born, properly, in a log cabin and, at twelve, helped round up votes for Greene County Democrats. This was a mistake he soon corrected. When Grover Cleveland and the Democrats took the high tariff off imported wools and ruined Ed's sheep-raising father, Ed reformed and joined the Republicans. In 1898 he marched off to fight the Spanish in the Philippines. He came back and graduated from Waynesburg College...
Royal Confinement. This happens every night until the larvae are enclosed in cocoons to change into motionless pupae. Deprived of the stimulation which they get from, the larvae's squirmings, the workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this seclusion, the queen is gravid. Her abdomen swells enormously, and she lays some 30,000 eggs, which hatch into tender white larvae. When both larvae and "callow" ants are ready to travel, the colony becomes nomadic again...
...July 22, 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his band of a dozen nosed their little craft into a winding stream and decided that there, where a river met the lake, would be a good place for another town site. The Yankees built a couple of log cabins and left one family-Job Stiles and his wife-to hold the franchise...
...fourth engineer scrawls F W E . . . on the log-board and we all sigh with relief. We have to work on, of course, but the voyage is over. 'Finished with the engines' about describes the effect intended by this book...
Author McFee's memoir of his youth waddles along like an old tramp steamer, picking up a memory here, unloading a prejudice there, sleepily reviving the log of McFee's "first watch" (1906-11) as ship's engineer and as author. In retrospect, McFee isn't sure which of his two callings has meant more to him; he seems equally grateful that during the period of this piece he wrote most of Casuals of the Sea, and got his chief engineer's certificate. He also seems amazed at what a fine, steady chap young...