Word: albinoes
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...deer, had thrown the tube in defense, landing it around the deer's neck. Other Stone Stories: An unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout...
...thousands and exclaimed: "That star does not belong there. Take it out." But that, to scientists, is a prosaic anecdote when there are papers to be heard on such exotic subjects as "Respiration of Tomato Fruits," "Animal Ecology of Oaks," "Cytologic Changes Following Vasoligation of the Kidney of the Albino...
...guards and two other prisoners the Ford wheeled over the 40 miles to the State Farm. His one rheumy eye (the other, albino, is blind) for the first time saw automobiles, a steamshovel, a road roller, skyscrapers, an airplane in flight. He licked his first ice cream cone, drank his first bottle of ginger ale. His only question: "Aren't there any more horses?" So violently did new sights and sounds impinge upon his prison-warped senses that he was left almost speechless...
...dormouse in his pocket, heir to the Margrave's wide possessions. The duchess?who called her castle with the name her peasants had given her?"Maultasch" (Sack-mouth)?found a man as ugly as herself to whom she could entrust her affairs. Konrad of Frauenberg was an albino who found his enjoyment of life in eating, drinking, taking a bath, sleeping and three other kindred but less polite pleasures. He sneered at the duchess, managed her lands, killed her husband, then her son, finally her detested enemy, the lovely and well-loved Agnes von Flavon...
Squatted in teepees, wagons, automobiles, or lounging through the streets of Lawrence, were many famed chiefs and their followers- Chief Bacon Rind and his Osages, John Quapaw, and his Quapaws, White Buffalo (with pink ribbons in his albino locks) and his Cheyennes; many a Comanche, Arapahoe, Creek, Sioux, Winnebago, Ute, Pueblo, Navajo-all to the number of 1,500. Despite the intellectual salutation of Mr. White Calf, the assemblage did not have the air of a racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing...