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...coastal Negro dialect of South Carolina, part Huguenot, part English, part African. Sample: W'en oona duh de-dey, duh dee' duh un de-dey (When you are there, the deer is not there...
...bullet, he explained: "I spit it out." Wire At Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles Garnett, Mike Eikelbery, and Everett Glazier were arrested for stealing 150 mi. of copper wire which they dismantled while the lines were charged with 144,000 volts. Near Middletown, N. Y. Fred Woods saw a deer drop dead while crossing a field, followed it, dropped dead by its side. Both had touched a broken high tension wire...
...Formerly the "Deer Park" where Hohenzollerns hunted with hound and horn in the middle of continental Europe's largest city. Today the Tiergarten is a public park but still bushy and foresty, though crisscrossed by immaculate, grass-bordered avenues...
Most important of musky-smelling ani. mals is the musk deer. The secretion from a small sac found in the male causes the pungent odor, is used in many perfumes. "Musk" was originally the name of musk deer perfume, later was transferred to all animals and plants which had a similar odor. Some musk animals: muskrat, musk duck, musk beetle, musk shrew, musk turtle, musk kangaroo. Plants: musk mallow, musk root, musk clover, musk orchis, musk okra...
FIFTEEN RABBITS - Felix Salten - Simon & Schuster ($1). Mild, somewhat poetic, this exceedingly simple book presents a vision of rabbit life as the Viennese author of Bambi sees it. As in Bambi, which was deer life poeticized, all the birds & beasts of the forest-and finally even the trees- converse freely together in a rather flat idiom, and the majority eat each other with relish and frequency. That, with the doings of sundry hunters, forms the background, foreground and action of the story...