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...spent much of his time with the Cherokee Indians. At 20, he began moving on his own account. He joined the Army and served in the War of 1812. At the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, serving as an ensign, he was shot in the thigh with a barbed arrow. He ordered a soldier to pull it out, but the man couldn't, so he drew his pistol and threatened: "If you don't pull it out, I'll shoot you." When it was out he rushed back into the fray...
...masticators. So many apple weeks, good books, anti-Red, prohibition, old clothes, old home, and old bottles weeks have been added to the calendar of the suffering citizen, that a few more will be distinctly a propos: a non-advertising week, a non-convention year, a death-to-Arrow-collar-men week, and unlimited-cuts week-all these and more, spelled out in capitals, would en it on the year, and make the time go faster in this country which is so bored with liberty that it destroys it upon the slightest opportunity...
Said a noted "Liberal": "The club, the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun, the bomb, the gas, the germ. . . . Get that picture! . . . Let us make no pious pretenses of being shocked. This is the logical development of war. . . . America, secluded, secure, satisfied, is tempted to forget...
...club, the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun, the bomb, the gas, the germ...
There are also wooden traps which work on the same principle as the bow and arrow. The trap is set and held in place by a trigger, which is released by the animal...