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...Taichow in the Province of Chekiang, a living frog in a glass jar was paraded through the streets. On all sides people kowtowed, prayed to the frog for rain...
...crowd protested and the official's bodyguard attempted to disperse them. In the melée which followed the frog was dropped, the jar shattered, frog ground to jelly. Infuriated, the mob attempted to rush the guard, belaboring them with fists, sticks and feet. The military official, immobile of face, ordered his men to fire. Eight Chinese fell dead, one a priest...
JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live...
...Frog-in-the-well advancement...
...Carp's excuses three years ago, when he broke his hand against Champion Dempsey's jaw. Carpentier, the crowd realized, injured his leg against Gibbons when he was in the midst of his strategic retreat. At this point, one of the ringside sitters yelled out: "The Frog wants to quit!" Rewards. There was no title at stake, and the fight will not go down in the official records, because Indiana laws do not permit decision bouts. The only reward of the boxers was the fun of the thing-and the money. Of the latter, Carp received...