Word: catch-basins
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...hunting, as well as a pet badger. The following highly dramatic account of their actions appears in a prominent place in a New York daily. The story is very edifying. The fable of the badger reads: "The badger escaped from its owner one morning, and took refuge in the catch-basin to a sewer, corner of State and Chapel streets, and the police and general public were much interested in effecting the capture of the animal. Crowds of men and boys gathered at the sewer entrance for several days in the vain hope of recovering the property. In the meantime...
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