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...dawn one brisk November morning, Joe York, a middle-aged dairy farmer in Scurry County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...
...more dashing events on the bill, the bareback and saddle brone riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, and the wild brahma bull riding contests, they are fine while they last, but there is not enough of this real rodeo stuff and what there is of it is all too brief. It seems a pity to have a young man come all the way from Ysleta, Texas, and then work only eight seconds (the length of a time a contestant has to ride a brone bareback) an evening...
...written the story that most American novelists write first, the autobiographical novel. The Big Cage is the account of the education, boyhood, family life, first writings and first loves of a writer. It is the recurrent theme of recent American literature, the story of Look Homeward, Angel, of Moon-Calf, A World I Never Made, The Genius, This Side of Paradise and innumerable other tales of sensitive, gifted and egocentric youth at war with the narrow constraints of American culture...
...Falls, Quebec, decided to take a walk into the bush from his country villa at Lac des lies. In the course of his visitation to this uninhabited ares, he came upon a very young and altogether wretched cow moose upon whom he took immediate pity. He swept the gawky calf into his arms and carried it back to his house. After a brief meditation, he decided that the animal should be removed to his stable in Shawinigan Falls and trained to peform some useful duty...
...takes the hide of one whole calf to make each head, and several years of seasoning are necessary to make the drum playable. In twenty years the monster percussion instrument has become practically the band's trademark so, though the high cost of transportation is prohibitive--always over $100--it is usually carried to all nearby games as well as Soldier's Field...