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Though shorn of much of the strength with which she crushed all comers last year, Cornell appeared to be a promising convalescent. Backs Whetstone, Wade and Isaly smashed into the Niagara eleven with commendable violence (27 to 0), and the Big Red line had heft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooting Season | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...family, ven, in case of their running short, he nobly begins a pecking of hisself onto the breast, and a sayin', in his vay, "I dies for those I loves," - a be-autiful motto, my little dears, for your copy-books and your antecedent lives. The unusual heft of his bill makes him appear lopsided; but a kind Providence and the visdom of Beneficent Nature has counteracted this seemin' top-heaviness by a balancin' on to the end of his hyber-uncu-lated tail a number of heavy quills, vich balances him quite even-like, and accounts for his peculiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH SHOWMAN. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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