Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propose to organize a corporation to operate a large cat ranch near McKee City, where land can be purchased cheap for that purpose...
...start with, we will collect 1,000 cats. Each cat will average twelve kittens a year. The skins will sell for from ten cents for the white ones to 75¢ for the pure black. We will have about twelve million skins to sell at an average of 30¢ apiece, making our revenue about $10,000 per day, gross...
GIANTS IN THE EARTH-O. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Over the wide grass lands the wind walked, making cat's-paws on a green ocean. Beret sat on the prairie schooner, staring at immensity, feeling the nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar...
...said a black cat's-I mean bone...
...swear to God my man's got a black cat's bone-Every time I start to leave I gotta come back home...