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...Labero, hypnotist, made passes at a python. Unentranced, the python grasped Labero's hand so firmly in its jaws that it broke off a tooth. Dismissing the python, Labero put to sleep crocodiles, hens, guinea pigs, rabbits, a boa constrictor. Came an eagle. The eagle fastened its beak deeply into the hand gnawed by the python, but toppled over unconscious at the same moment that Labero fainted from loss of blood. The next subject on the bill was a lion. Said critics: "It's lucky Labero fainted...
...winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling orange, lemon, grapefruit trees, no water. Paradise has gone...
...beak will hold more than his belican...
...Winsted, Conn., famed as a home of strange events, one Charles Alling beheld a large crane caught by the foot in a wire fence, went to save the pitiable fowl. The crane drove his beak into Alling's left eye, ", permanently blinded...
...blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from...