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...just to see what the city would "look like to a fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy...
...igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak had a happy idea: "Maybe he is not hungry. Maybe he just wants to laugh with a worthless woman." Beamed Ernenek: "Make yourself beautiful...
There may be anthropoid apes in Venezuela, Ley says optimistically, and little furry men in Africa. Ley admits that the dodo, most extinct of birds, is gone for good-and so is the great auk...
...heron is a heron is a heron is an auk," said the eminent expert on aves, and even birds ought to know it. This sort of cheap attempt at evading truth blackens the name of ornithology and must be condemned by all responsible and intelligent people, students and faculty alike...
...Wavell's old rank of Commander in Chief in India went General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck ("The Auk"), veteran of the Indian and Middle East services. But the London communique announcing these changes added significantly...