Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saint Joseph, Mich., when Alfred Zuhl, 11, pedaled too close to a vacuum street sweeper, he and his bicycle were whisked up. sucked into the dust container. Hastily mechanics took the sweeper apart, found the bicycle wrecked, Alfred Zuhl gasping but unhurt. Demanded Alfred Zuhl: "Where's my cap...
...only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps, one was captured, one run to death by hounds while she was still a cub. That left only one, the strongest and canniest of the lot. Through...
...full year, too, for Duncan, the Cap'n's young nephew. He had his first hunt, and was blooded (given the accolade of a dab of blood on the cheeks, from a torn bit of the killed fox). He sneaked away to cockfights, hunted rats, drank in wisdom and tall tales from his elders. He learned to distinguish the distant hounds by their baying, how to tell when they were on the right line. When the year came full circle, Duncan's story and the fox's drew nearer & nearer together. The Cap...
...drawn by the Crown about the accused man's neck. On the last day of the trial, Ratanji jittered, wept, frequently wiped with a handkerchief his profusely perspiring hands. Yet there was still no direct evidence. After the jury verdict of guilty, Justice Singleton put on the black cap which in Britain means that sentence of Death is to be pronounced. "The law knows but one sentence," he cried, "for the terrible crime you have committed...
...over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable and affectionate knowledge of hounds and fox-hunting...