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...loyal heroism of Prince Charlie's protectors after the battle, when redcoats combed the country for him. One of his hostesses, Anne Macintosh, on a visit to London three years after, found herself dancing with the Duke of Cumberland (known to all good Jacobites as "the Butcher of Culloden"). The first dance over, she asked if she might choose the air for the second, called for The Auld Stuarts Back Again...
...memory green and rankling. One stormy night the canary gets out of its cage and, terrified by the cat, escapes into the woods. Fraulein Emma searches in vain, finds instead a lovely young girl, Liesl, whom she brings home with her. Liesl cannot stand the cat, so Adolf, her butcher-boy swain, has the cat made away with. That very night sleek, feline Karl puts in an appearance. When Karl stabs the faithful old dog, up pops a grizzled old gardener. By the time the long-lost Josef returns from the U. S. to claim his middle-aged bride...
...like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three older sisters were beauties; her little brother was a caution (his most prized possession was a bottle in which he collected his spit). Her father was a butcher, a sensible sort of man; her immense mother had swum the English Channel at 19, had now relapsed into a mountainous and silent character. Velvet was not much to look at but she had her mother's spirit. And Velvet worshiped horses. All she had to ride was Miss...
...Butcher Boy & Vile Business...
Anyway, the front cover of your issue of March 25 comes forth with a swell-looking picture of America's No. 1 Butcher Boy. and practically all of pp. 15, 16, 17 and 18 is devoted to America's part in the World's Vilest Business...