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Last February the body of pretty young Ellen O'Sullivan was found in a bog. Ellen was a dairymaid employed by the Rathmore Creamery in County Kerry. The clothes were torn from her body, her head was bashed in by a boulder. All in all it looked pretty bad for Jeremiah Cronin, a neighboring farmer. He was Ellen's acknowledged sweetheart, and his bicycle was found not far from the scene of the crime...
...just again appealed in his Mid-Western speeches. For weeks he had been mulling over the situation. Germany, he knew, was in desperate straits. Ambassador Sackett had lately been home with first-hand reports and descriptions. Ambassadors Gibson and Dawes on recent White House visits had told of the bog into which Europe's economy, weighted by Germany, was sinking. Senator Morrow, just back from Germany, had brought word of the fear of an armed uprising there. The President had been reading in the newspapers of Chancellor Briining's visit to Prime Minister MacDonald at "Chequers" to seek...
...ablest outboard and runabout "bugs" in the country, off again on the annual 142-mile race to Manhattan. Many of them were professionals little known outside the outboard motor trade, but there were amateurs too: Kirk Ames, stage funnyman; Harold Chapman, who won the race around Manhattan last summer; Bog Flagg, Worcester, Mass., schoolboy; four girls, one of them-Anne Townsend of Greenwich-aged 13 and having her father with her as mechanic in her runabout; C. Phelps Stevens, whose trade nickname is Jonah because he usually gets the best times in the trials, then swamps at the start...
...that the international polo and America's Cup races would lure Englishmen away, and the depressed stockmarket keep Americans at home, fires blazed high in feudal halls rented for the season. Once more beaters in a semicircle drove toward the blinds; once more, amid smells of gunpowder and bog myrtle, the birds rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen who go to Scotland after Aug. 12 and before the end of September, go because they know, or want to learn, the rules of a peculiar, a social kind of shooting. No lone hunter with dog and gun can stroll...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...