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Animal Crashers. In Lexington, Mass., a deer charged through the front door of a music shop, charged out the rear. In Orange, Va., a footloose bull entered a department store, was captured before he found the china department...
...reader of The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime might guess, H. T. Webster had a happy boyhood. He spent it in Tomahawk, Wis. (pop. 3,365) where his dad ran the drugstore. Tomahawk (the way Webster remembers it) was a little town afloat in a forest where deer and small game were plentiful, the lakes and streams were stiff with fish, you could run onto the tracks of bear often enough almost to believe you had seen them and killed them, and school was no more interesting than it is in most other places. Webbie used to hide...
Double or Nothing. The other half of Army's high explosive charge is deer-footed Junior Davis, also 20 (he looks younger) and also a second-year Cadet. He was just about the best schoolboy athlete ever grown in Southern California. At Claremont, a citrus-belt town of well-manicured lawns and ivy-covered homes, his high-school sports were football, baseball, basketball and track. He won the Knute Rockne Trophy for being Southern California's outstanding schoolboy track star...
First day out, the woods were so noisy with dry leaves that no one had any real luck. Governor Hildreth got a porcupine, ceremoniously toasted its liver for lunch. He also used his deer rifle on a partridge, cleanly cut off the bird's head. Next day he missed a deer at 25 yards (his gold-rimmed glasses were steamed by the rain). But on the third day he bagged his buck...
...search Maine's woods for lost persons; it increased one liquor inspector's salary from $33 to $39 a week; and approved various appointments of notaries public and justices of the peace. The meeting lasted an hour. Then the Council sat down to a feast of deer liver, bear steak and biscuits...