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...tree, put a strip of tin around the bottom of the tree so no one could climb up quietly. Below his tree, he put a chicken yard; grew vegetables nearby. Annoyed by chicken thieves, Fred Brown tied a flag to the door of the henhouse so that it would flap when anyone opened the door. Annoyed by a sheriff, he went to court as a witness in a case, cursed the judge, was taken away to jail for five days. Unwilling to converse with strangers, to all who asked questions he answered "My past is buried. Ask no questions...
...Scout Clifford Taylor, of Des Plaines, Ill., was cleaning fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...
...will scuttle back and forth on the shore, cackle and screech and flap her wings, but that's the ineffective best she can do for an incongruous brood gliding serenely off to midpond. Mr. Meadows was a very nice old hen, his scuttlings were well-bred, his cacklings mellifluous. In a charming London house he brought up his daughters and entertained their friends. But when his dependable older daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love...
...stems with tubular strands. Water thyme has slender pointed leaves and graceful translucent green stems. Bladderwort carries little traps at the ends of stems. Really they are the size of pin heads. Enlarged they are three to four inches in diameter. When an animalcule touches the bladder (utricle) a flap snaps upwards; the beastie slips into the pouch; the trap springs shut...
...flap its wings. Alan Cobham, British aviator in the plane, looked down and started with amazement, for scowling up at him from beneath their heavy orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...