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...melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player south of Panama...
...Marcus Schlossman, dealer in plumbing supplies, a blunt forthright fellow, has his home. Long has Plumber Schlossman viewed with alarm the growing "exclusiveness" of the district, the efforts of realtors to attract even more fine feathers. It did not help the plumbing trade, that much he knew. Was such cock-loftiness even American? Did it not endanger the very principles of equality upon which the nation was founded? For a long time he brooded on this question, went down into his cellar, wrote a sign, affixed it to his front window. "To Let," he stated, adding, in huge black letters...
...Manhattan, a foot-passenger in a vacant street (for it was earliest morning) heard a scream from a shuttered birdshop, and peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...
...said : "And sometimes the General went away and got into trouble. He was always quarreling and vituperating and fighting . . . with Mr. Dickinson, whom he pronounced to be a worthless, drunken blackguard scoundrel, and finally killed, quite deliberately, on a May morning when the other's pistol stopped at half-cock...
...crack shot, because he had insulted Mrs. Jackson. They fought with pistols at eight yards. Dickinson fired first and wounded Jackson near the heart. Jackson took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. Then it was not Dickinson's, but Jackson's, pistol that stopped at , half cock. Jackson, sorely wounded, cocked it again and shot Dickinson, mortally wounding...