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Before the Daily Mirror was born, before Philip Payne became its managing editor, there was the double murder beneath the crab-apple tree. The first investigation ended without indictments; the case was hushed...
...Julian Sorell Huxley, King's College, London, brother of very-cynical-about-nothing-in-particular Author Aldous Huxley, related observations in the realm of his famed grandfather, Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtships among low forms of life were his theme: male bristleworms wriggling in groups around females; fiddler crab bridegrooms posturing on tip-claw; hunting spider suitors offering a fly, neatly wrapped in webbing, to their prospective mates; penguins presenting bits of stone for nest-material. Professor Huxley also demonstrated that a fixed ratio exists between the members and body-weight of organisms of all sizes. A moose...
Althopugh the M. I. T. boat won a clearly deserved triumph, the University Freshmen lost ground on account of a crab which number 7 caught about half way through the race...
...Meat (Vegetarian), Oven-Baked Red Kidney Beans, Cream of Tomato Soup, Cream of Green Pea Soup, Cream of Celery Soup, Mince Meat, Plum Pudding, Fig Pudding, Peanut Butter, Cooked Spaghetti, Cherry Preserves, Red Raspberry Preserves, Peach Preserves, Damson Plum Preserves, Strawberry Preserves, Pineapple Preserves, Black Raspberry Preserves, Blackberry Preserves, Crab Apple Jelly, Currant Jelly, Grape Jelly, Quince Jelly, Apple Butter, Preserved Sweet Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Midget Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Mixd Pickles, Sour Spiced Gherkins, Sour Midget Gherkins, Sour Mixed Pickles, Chow Chow Pickle, Sweet Mustard Pickle, Dill Pickles, Sour Pickled Onions, Preserved Sweet Onions, Sandwich Relish, Spanish Queen Olives, Spanish...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...