Word: calfing
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...children can fondle and lug around to their hearts' content. The houses of the Three Little Pigs-one of straw, another of sticks, and a third of non-huffable brick-sure enough hold three pigs. In Old MacDonald's Farm roam a placid Jersey cow and her calf, a few llamas, a couple of goats and a black baby yak. Behind the barn is a run for sheep, roosters, hens and geese, and there is a pen for three raccoons that hide in a log. The children can also poke around in a good-sized Noah...
Last week a white farmer in Kenya's great Rift Valley found the body of a lost calf he had been searching for. Its front legs had been cut off and placed in its mouth; its belly had been ripped and its entrails festooned about its neck and head...
...Calf on Credit. The Murchisons have been rich all their lives, began early to get their education in high finance. While they were still toddlers, Father Clint Sr. switched from buying oil leases, in partnership with the late Sid Richardson, into oil drilling. A brilliant trader, old Clint Murchison built his original holdings almost entirely by credit, swapping a share of one oil lease for money to start a second. In 1925, after his fortune had reached $5,000,000, Clint took a brief fling at retirement. But after his wife's death in 1927 he went back...
...play poker and to hunt squirrel, duck and quail in the best Texas style. When John was only ten, Clint began teaching him the basic lessons in financial gain: you can buy something, and make a profit on it, without using your own money. He sold John a calf on credit for $25, took his signed note to pay the price plus interest. Young John later sold the calf at a profit and paid off the note. Said Clint Sr.: "I figure a man is worth about twice what he owes...
Exotic Menu. The ordeal over, Elizabeth and Philip recessed for lunch along the Narayani River. The exotic menu: black partridge, florican crane, wild boar shashlik, shredded venison curry. Then they went after bigger game: a female rhinoceros, spotted plodding through the jungle, calf in tow. Prized by poachers (who grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend...