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...show this year were bull mastiff and Great Pyrenees. Brindled and powerful, with a worried wrinkle in its big, square forehead, the bull mastiff is the result of a cross between mastiff and bulldog. The Great Pyrenees looks something like a white Newfoundland, is an able sheep herder in its native mountains. Lately imported from Europe, its U. S. owners have found it an amiable companion, an excellent watchdog...
...lustful pastor in the late Jeanne Eagels' most successful play Rain was also a "Reverend Davidson." †Literally "conduct unbecoming a sheep herder," overseer or bishop. For Ye were as sheep going astray; but arc now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.-Peter...
Zenzinov left Verkhoyansk by reindeer sled in a last attempt to escape; had it not been for the alcohol he carried with him he might have succeeded. Encamped one night with a Chukchi herder Zenzinov foolishly gave him some alcohol to drink. The Chukchi liked it so much he kept Zenzinov a prisoner until a Russian trader came along, rescued him. By that time the authorities had their eye on Zenzinov again; he gave up hope, served out his term...
...name of the authors run a large gamut, one near to the game declared. In one lecture Byron, Wordsworth. Wackenroder, Hazlitt, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Herder, Rousseau, Goe-the and Voltaire clashed with St. Augustine, Confucius, Aristotle, St. Paul, Socrates, Dante, Plato and Marcus Aurelius, Sandwiched in between were Walter Lippman, Barry Elmer Barnes, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Picasso and John Livingston Lowes...
...fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow buds, blueberries...