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...pursuit in 1928, after more than 25 years spent in fighting the Empire's battles, from skirmishes in India to the trenches of World War I. Instead of retiring to his London town house, which bristles with lion and panther heads, he teamed up with his young cousin, Zoologist Theresa Clay, and mounted an offensive against the Mallophaga. He and Theresa believe that the lice can be used as a small-scale model of animal evolution...
...Best Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled...
Next of the "backwoods obstetricians" to win Graham's praise was Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Ky. In 1809, he persuaded Jane Todd Crawford, 47 (and a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln), to travel 60 miles on horseback to his surgery, though she was very ill. Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy - and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst...
...Miss Amelia's kin. To everybody's surprise, she takes him in, and a big change takes place in Miss Amelia. On Sundays she lays aside her overalls and swamp boots and spruces up in a red dress. Her store becomes a little cafe, with hunchback Cousin Lymon hopping about spreading merriment with his malicious tongue, while Miss Amelia smiles happily...
...cracks when her long-forgotten husband, Marvin Macy, comes back. A lazy, flashy lout, he quickly has Cousin Lymon following him like a puppy. A showdown has to come, and it does: Miss Amelia fights Marvin Macy with her fists, is on the way to winning when, at the last minute, Cousin Lymon leaps in like a demon, on Macy's side. Then the two men leave, after wrecking Miss Amelia's piano, her cabinet of curios and her still...