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What is the nature of the work? What is a trail; anyway? A trail is cleared "when it has been made so passable by removal of growth of all sorts that a tramper with pack and horizontal blanket-roll, proceeding steadily, upright will encounter no obstructions, and will be able to see the footway a few steps ahead." The work consists of subtracting from the natural growth of the forest along the route of the trail whatever is necessary to reduce it to the above qualifications...
...trying to ride from the Argentine to New York. The second horse carried a pack. They had crossed salt deserts, the high Andes, skirted Lake Titicaca, plunged through Ecuadorian jungles (where Mr. Tschiffley, whom the South American press had dubbed "Don Quixote de la Mancha," had to blanket the animals heavily to save them from vampire bats). He proposed passing through Texas, Kentucky, the Chicago stockyards, before exhibiting himself on Broadway. His purpose: to demonstrate the endurance of criollos, to promote an inter-continental rodeo between U. S. cowboys and Patagonian gauchos...
...President sat down, listened to speeches by Secretary of War Davis and American Legion Commander Howard P. Savage. He might have shivered but he did not because Secret Service Chief Jarvis wrapped an automobile blanket about him; also Mrs. Catherine Brew, War mother, sent her wool blanket to protect him. Said...
...much aroused to mind the cold and did not mind the weather. I am all right and I will doubly enjoy the blanket after it has been used by the President...
Slagle of Princeton sat on a bench with a blanket over him. Fortnight ago he had hurt his leg against Harvard. It was Earl Baruch, sophomore halfback, who ran with the ball, who booted it through gulfs of air, who threw the pass Dan Caulkins carried to a touchdown and who kicked the goal that beat a Yale team...