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...sandpiper. The species most common in England (and the U. S.) is the ringed plover, "Billdeer." Crocodiles like plovers, not to eat but because the birds pick leeches and other parasites from saurian mouths. Also a sleepy crocodile knows that with a few plovers about it is safe to doze off because, should an enemy approach, the cries of the plovers will wake him up. Egyptian folklore teems with improving tales about the close, platonic friendships of crocodiles and plovers...
...climb the wall, seeking new shadings between that illumination which merely arrests his attention and that which renders him temporarily blind. And there is the trolley's long descending squeal, the trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...
...after midnight. I had lingered long over TIME, and despite the interest of its contents was just falling into a doze, when an item passed beneath my eyes, and shattered my slumber Appropriately enough, it was an earthquake story which did it, appearing under the head SCIENCE in TIME, March 12. This item referred to a quake shock at "dreadfully hot Bakersfield," and seemed to imply that a series of mild shocks felt here about ten days ago was a fulfillment of a prophecy of Prof. Willis of Stanford for earthquake at Los Angeles...
Story: ". . . Four bandits were guarding me. Their rifles lay across their knees. It was night. I pretended to be asleep. They began to doze. I waited until they were sound asleep. Then I got up with a piece of steel rod in one hand and a broken bottle in the other. I brained the first man near me, slashed the throat of the second one with the broken bottle and laid about with the steel rod. My aim was good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush...
...assigned reading is given. Looking at Freshmen as they are and not as they ought to be it is quickly seen that the reading is done by more than the minority "who ought to be flunked anyway" for the sole purpose of passing that quiz; taken like a doze of salt instead of as food. Notes, if any are unsystematic, unimportant, and useless for review. They are probably not looked at again until the final exam Final grade "D"-disappointment because he "really worked damn had for that exam," is it not much better to study the material...