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...Fowl Blood...
...fragrant or emollient fluids," cried Dr. Gauducheau, "penetrate through the natural channels of the vascular system into the most distant tissues and uttermost fibres. By a refinement of my method I can infallibly impart different attributes to various parts of the same fowl, transforming a pigeon, for example, into a veritable symphony of flavors and a bouquet of delicate pastel colors...
Poetry--Tristram, Wm. Arlington Robinson. Guinea Fowl and Other Poultry, Leonard Bacon. The Bright Doom, John Hall Wheelock...
...Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation...