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...slick manipulation Benson was acquitted. Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding him. Human avengers came to his hideout too late, but had the workman-like satisfaction of chucking what was left of him into the Five Points rat-pit. Author Komroff's tale of 100-year-old Manhattan is no lavender-scented memorial, but a crude, almost reportorial narrative which lets the background take care of itself. A New York Tempest is a tale not of Manhattan's 400 (so designated circa...
...considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...
...favorite pastime of the employes at this pear station was to use the rat-kangaroo as a target while it sat motionless in the glare of a carbide light. It was not uncommon to kill several in an evening. The wallaby also suffers from this type of sport. A score in one evening was considered a goodly kill...
...louse carries a violent, epidemic form of the disease common in Europe. In the U. S. typhus is milder and endemic, travels in the rat flea...
...kangaroo-rat, which is no marsupial, but a jumping rodent...