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Julie, the daughter of an old rabbit trapper named Rabit Hamil (Harry Brogan), is the youngest and fairest member of a family notorious the length and breadth of the county. "The Hamils," says a neighbor, "have the minds of rabbits, the instincts of rabbits, and the morals of rabbits." Young Luke Carey (Tim Seely) has been seeing Julie without sanction from his family. But she is determined to be his wife. "Sure," says Julie, "I wouldn't break in another greenhorn for a thousand pounds...
...oldtimers-those who have been around more than two winters-like to regale the newcomers with tall tales of the North, such as the one about the trapper who aimed a kick at what he thought was his neighbor's dog one night, connected with the rump of a polar bear. It is a society of rough humor; in-transit passengers at Frobisher blush to see the yellow de Havilland Otter labeled "Arctic Whore." Housewives soon learn to adjust to the rigors of the North. They fly the family laundry outdoors all winter, taking care not to break...
...Foundation for Research and Education, made an aerial trip to Kibwezi, on Kenya's equatorial highlands. There he joined four of Hoi-man's associates, led by Dr. Henry C. McGill Jr., on the happy hunting grounds of the dog-faced baboon (Papio anubis). They hired a trapper with native bushwhackers to collect baboons...
Furious, he conducts a one-man raid on a well-known elephant trapper's stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to the U.S. public as a glorious but unsung hero, "a modern Robin Hood...
...catch her eye, Haynes wrote a second plea on birchbark, imploring her to reconsider. This time Mamie did agree to accept the makings of a coat, paid out $385 to have the 17 prime pelts, donated by two trappers' associations, fashioned into a finished garment (worth, said Haynes, some $1,800). Last week Mamie obliged by smilingly modeling the three-quarter-length, sleek, dark coat for White House photographers while Trapper Haynes and Archie Clark chattered happily to reporters...