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Madison, 32, a Colorado state wildlife officer, or game warden, is worried. Too many bull elk are being killed in the fall hunting season. Consequently, he believes, fewer than half of the cow elk in his district are giving birth to calves in spring. That is much too low; 70% is best to maintain the herd properly...
...always posed hitting, pitching or fielding. But now a touch of flamboyance is stealing into the baseball-card business (estimated sales: $45 million). While most cards retain the classic style, a few of the new designs might be enough to make Cubs Announcer Harry Caray blurt his famous "Holy cow...
Vinnie has better luck. Despite a preference for slim, elegant men, she be friends a retired engineer from Tulsa who tours London in Western boots, broad brim hat and plastic raincoat. The cow boy and the kiddie-lit professor make an odd couple, but they have much to offer each other. She helps him research his ancestry; he proves to be an intelligent observer and, in due course, a sensitive lover...
During one such raid, a peasant seems in danger of losing his prized cow to a soldier. Fortunately, the beast leads the invader into confusion: "The German on his way through the woods was making discoveries that left him openmouthed: chickens perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...
...work on his front lawn. ("I used to have such a beautiful yard," said the wistful Mrs. Watson, who also used to have a nice piece of white rug before the Kid turned it into a hat:) The Kid makes found art. An aluminum shark, a tin cow, a pair of pants on sticks, originally meant to be a sculpture of John Henry but never finished, thus called Half of John Henry. The Kid makes suits out of Naugahyde...