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...yards a hunting bow handled by someone who knows how is more deadly than a short-barreled revolver. Famed U. S. hunting bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...
...Coldwell (NH), R. H. Phelps '30, R. W. Hale '30, W. R. Koch '29, C. B. Davls '31, D. H. Wilson '31, C. A. Prisk (NH), H. D. Jackson (NH), K. F. Fielding (S), Carrol Swift (S), Harold Kirkpartick (C), Rubin Parkins (NH), P. S. Dalton '31, C. D. Bowmen (S), Ingram Terry (S), S. S. Elliott (C), A. B. Douropulis '31, John Rothschild Jr. '29, S. L. Burr '31, J. S. Mahon (NH), George Chesey (S), G. H. Willis '30, P. D. Morris '31, A. B. Wood (NH), K. T. Dennis '81, Paul Stoughton...
...through a wilderness of flowers. Their meek quarry fled through the brilliant fields; behind him, silent and happy, the pursuit increased and came more quickly; a wind stiffened in their flags and made the starry flowers bend across the grass. The white hounds leaned upon their leashes and the bowmen bent their bows. Crouching in a garden at last, the prisoned unicorn gazed upon his followers. They levelled spears amid a thousand flowers...
...host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence, her knights and troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once...
...when the French were routed by English bowmen...