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Spring-breeding species, such as migratory birds, mated in fall or winter when Dr. Bissonnette exposed them to lengthening "daylight." Fall-mating species, such as goats, mated in spring when the photoperiodic cupid beguiled them with shortening days. Overstimulated pheasants laid 100 eggs, and died. A female raccoon gave birth to two litters in one year...
...with holes) for complimentary theater tickets. An illiterate Ohio lass performing miracles with a squirrel rifle, she is snapped up by Buffalo Bill, falls in love with the male sharpshooter of the troupe (Ray Middleton). Unfortunately for his affections, she shoots better than he does. But in good time Cupid's bow wins out over Annie...
...beautiful prostitute named Morina, and has in turn saved her from being arrested for larceny. He has also fallen head over ears in love with her. By page 36, Morina has loved him and left him (he's a sweet boy, she reckons, but what good's Cupid without a bank balance?). By page 47, avid Roger has tracked Morina to the red-light district in Virginia City; and by page 60 he is suffering pangs of anguish at seeing his beloved stand up nude on a piano and offer herself up for auction ("she never looked more...
...purveyor of Cupid's Breath (and 300 other pretty-smelling beauty products) is in racing for the sport, but she has made a business of it. Last year she plunked down a staggering $315.000 for ten fancy-bred yearlings; her two-year-olds copped just about every big stake for horses their age. She finished up the season as the nation's top money winner-with earnings of $589,170-even though she objected to her "little darlings" wearing blinkers because they didn't look pretty, and forbade jockeys to whip the darlings during a race...
Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...