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...Model. In Montgomery, Ala., a used-car dealer allowed Farmer Willie G. Morris $385 trade-in value on a two-year-old donkey...
Pinoculus thinks this is a wonderful life ("0 quam dulcis vita!"), until he is turned into a donkey. Later, after being thrown into the sea to drown and being swallowed by a terrible shark ("Ehi, mihi misero," he wails in the black stomach), he finally gets back home and, as a reward for his general goodness, turns into a boy. "Oh," says Pinoculus, "how ridiculous I was when I was a puppetQuam deridiculus apparui, donee pupulus fueram...
...G.O.P. spirit of git up & git. Republican candidates had untiringly shouted their messages from platforms and street corners. Republican workers had worked hard to get out the vote. For a number of reasons that proved to be wrong, the Democrats had assumed that a big vote would favor the donkey. (Actually, Harry Truman had won in a small-sized vote in 1948.) In any case, the big vote in 1950 favored the Republicans...
...fear that the intruder may unthinkingly play a strong role in toppling an unstably-balanced political system that may, in fact, be a good one, by taking Republican and Democrat as Black and White. Amory questions whether a student politic cuts deeply enough beneath the elephant and donkey symbols to judge a localized situation on its own merit...
...voice from the crowd said: "Where are we to get enough hay to feed a donkey?" It was finally agreed that the don-keyless would pay a small fee to donkey owners for work done. Those without money would do chores for donkey owners. In worthy cases, Ente Sila would advance money for plowing...