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Currituck Sound. N. C., is dotted around with cement-floored pits where men of leisure take their ease in wintry weeks to shoot wild fowl. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is no man of leisure. Last week, waiting on an island in Currituck for a Navy plane to fetch him and his dead ducks, Mr. Robinson grew impatient. Currituck was freezing. The Navy must be run. Up he got and helped his guide push, pole and slide their boat through Currituck ice to the mainland...
...Newark, N. J., Mae C. Collins, 307 pounds, waddled into a butcher shop. On the walls hung red, juicy, uncooked animals. Under the glass counter reposed cool, damp, bulging joints of beef. On the counter, in the icebox, lay bloody fowl; flaccid livers; grisly, delicious knuckles; dainty, pink and white lamb chops. The gullet of Mae C. Collins gaped a little. Her small, pleasant, piggy eyes, twinkling behind rolls of fat as round and red as hamburgers, finally fixed on a ponderous porterhouse steak. Seizing it, she waddled out of the butcher shop...
...while he explained the young wife's earnest efforts, in the next room, to quicken the corpse. His double-meanings, the play's liveliest, are neatly turned. Playwright Dorranee Davis has woven an ancient habiliment for his modern comedy. Because it is not fish of the Restoration, fowl of the Jazz Age, or flesh of sound drama, it fritters off into neglibility...
Rabies is a disease which attacks the nerves and brain of practically all mammals and fowl. A virus is present in the saliva of the infected beast. When the mad animal bites another animal or a human, the saliva carrying the virus enters the wound. It often happens that a bite through clothing is not infectious for the simple reason that the mad dog's saliva is wiped off his teeth as they bite; through the clothing. The virus entering the flesh works its way to a nerve where it finds the best medium for proliferating...
...suppose, about 60 or 70 acres of tillable land. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also...