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Compared to the splendid enterprise led by Hunt, the Izzard expedition was a joke. Against some 360 coolies, Izzard had five. He had no map or compass and his equipment consisted in part of two pairs of sneakers, a few pots, an old U.S. Army pup tent, an umbrella to ward off the leeches that fell like leaves from the trees. The incongruous team traveled fast and far over rough country carpeted with rhododendrons, orchids and magnolias. Izzard had never climbed anything more formidable than a flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after...
...herding championship of the North American Sheep Dog Society. The crowd's favorite was a black & white border collie* named Rock, owned by Society President Arthur Allen. Rock, so small (32 Ibs.) that he seems lost in the shadow of a ram, was imported from Scotland as a pup four years ago. On Allen's 280-acre Illinois farm, he puts flocks of some 400 sheep through their proper paces year-round...
During the trial, the Edgmons' lawyer produced a surprise witness-Richard Reams, by trade a maker of artificial limbs. In 1943, Reams, then 11, his brother Jimmie, 13, and their mongrel pup had also crawled through the fence at Fort Ord. Like the Edgmon boys, they, too, came across an unexploded shell. Unfortunately for the Reams brothers, nobody heard the explosion, and searchers didn't find them until the next day-also Easter Sunday. Jimmie Reams was dead, and Dick lost both legs, but for the Reams family there was no redress. The law under which the Edgmon...
Author Beman tells the success story of an intelligent young pup in the world of "dumb people"-how he became a hero by saving the baby ("new small people") from death in a bedroom fire, how he amazed "Grandmother People" by fetching her slippers every evening, and how he even sneaked into church one day and joined in a hymn...
...Bulldogs representing the thousands of sons of Eli, the seventh in the line of Dans had the most distinguished air, the sturdiest back, and the longest pedigree. And as a pup he was well behaved, friendly to both Yalies and opponents...