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...Prices at times were as low as 4 pesos a cow, and at those prices cattle rustling would soon have become a dead industry. We all got together on the recovery wagon...
Chicago's 1871 fire, started by a cow, burned up $200,000,000 worth of property and many a cigaret smoker. Last week another great Chicago fire, started by a cigaret smoker, burned up $8,000,000 worth of property and many a cow...
Legend hath it that in the days long since departed, one noble resident of Hollis Hall received executive permission to tother his favorite cow on sacred ground not far from his corner room. And, indeed, this could hardly be construct as strange when our renowned historians tell us that, all gossip to the contrary, Harvard's Yard, long criticized for its snobbish and aristocratic name, was once just what that name did mean. For in the days of much Latin and little English, all gootle and healthie colleges did have a central plotted upon which fed the domestic servants...
...Zook's attack enlarged in cartoons on the idea that Mr. Avery's Gypsum was dumping building materials on Ward. In one cartoon never mailed, Mr. Avery explained, "there were three central figures: a cow, a milk pail and myself. The cow represented Montgomery Ward, the pail U. S. Gypsum, and I was put in the nattering position of doing something about which I know nothing...
...pendants studded with semiprecious stones, bead necklaces, cuffs, rods with decorated tips which the Coclés stuck in their ears, breastplates embossed with strange monsters, plaques bearing robot-like human faces. There were mirrors of hematite, agate beads and pendants, statuets carved from ribs of the manatee (sea cow), spearpoints made of sting-ray spines and sawfish teeth, shark's tooth necklaces, wild boars' tusks set in gold...