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...Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness by Mr. Lebouf's fingers, the buck leaped up, off, away.* "Norn de nom! Crees' de Kilvert!" commented...
...dislike hearing a man go singing to his death when one is sure he will return. The colonel had to return, if only to wave his handkerchief. By the way, devotees of the Metropolitan should see the uniform on--was he a captain? That alone is worth, sacre bleu, twelve thousand francs of my uncle's money
...defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in the chest with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great chef cannot be thus baited with impunity! Blood swam before my eyes. ... I skewered him it is true. . . . Next day he died at the hospital. . . . But it was to avenge...
...these crews there is a wealth of experienced material. Walter Gierasch, who is rowing number three on the Bleu crew, was member of the Middlesex crew last spring: Frederick Winthrop, who is at bow in the Blue boat, and C. B. Hitchcock, who is at number live, both had experience on the St. Mark's crew last year. The Groton crew is represented by F. M. Roberts, rowing at six on the Blue crew, and by Walter Maynard, M. C. Eustis, and H. G. Cushing, who are rowing respectively at numbers six, five, and four on the White crew...
...series of concerts which were lavishly heralded, created a sensation with interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Before the War, he conducted for seven years at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, directing with equal aplomb Russian, French, German, Italian opera. He produced Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleu, Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov; revived Gluck's Orfeo and Armide, Weber's Euryanthe. His feats of memory have become legend. Never has he been seen to use a score. In his head are over 100 operas, in addition to an enormous concert repertoire. When the jealous...