Word: fur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair...
...travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard to imagine. But the laconic narrative proceeds, with the reader's breath bated, until Jayne is disposed...
...rangers fighting a forest fire in the Santiago Canyon region in California their messenger dog came crawling on his belly. His eyes were red from the smoke, his fur burned by shoots of fire. While rangers comforted him, he licked his burns, fell asleep, whimpering. This must not happen again. So District Ranger Bill Freer made him an asbestos coat, good protection. Asbestos, a mineral found notably in the Province of Quebec, does not decompose under even relatively high degrees of heat. Nor does it allow heat to pass through it easily. Another characteristic is its resistance to most acids...
Early Friday afternoon the little Pralebeys begin to drift into town, and Bill Altenre whose you used to know at St. Sergius, brings one of his club mates in for the week-end. They are happy all over the place, and the fur coat which they leave by accident hardly suffices to pay for the damage they did to your liquor and your room...
...barbarian collection has 21 fur deals curiously decorated and constructed as one of the features of his display; Arctic whips, boots, sled fixtures, and crude musical instruments add interest to this exhibit...