Word: herds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headed cane and administrative complex"-all these will suddenly find themselves exposed in a bright light of irony, but a light playing gently, warm with humor and comprehension. More extraordinary, the legendary figure of Andy Protheroe is so keenly and completely alive that it must irresistibly delight that growing herd whose sophistication includes an uninquisitive scorn of mass coeducation...
...Pronounced "Herd-litch...
...feet. Finally, he pounced upon a sink hole they showed him only a few hundred feet from the white cow's sulphurous swimming hole. This hole was only just big enough to admit the body of a cow, but a local ranchman had lately dropped a small herd of dead cattle into it one by one. That accounted for the white cow, and the white cow appeared to prove the subterranean cavern theory of the subsidence. Geologist Lambert warned that the cavernous area might extend widely, lying perhaps under the town of Sharon Springs. When more rock dissolved...
Last week there was a strange and exciting scene in the quiet hamlet of Middleboro, Mass. Snorting, kicking, bunting, bugling, a herd of over 400 wild elk entered town. There were other elk in the vicinity and these the newcomers soon joined. They had traveled across the continent, all the way from Moiese, Mont. (Flathead Indian Reservation), in 70 hours, riding in specially constructed, electrically lighted express cars. Their total carfare amounted to $14,000. Everyone of the bulls had been dehorned before being shown to his stall, for the comfort of his fellow passengers and the conductors...
They were the property of one Percy R. Jones, to whom they had been presented at Moiese by the Government, free of charge, to relieve the pressure of elk population on the northern range of the Yellowstone herds. Mr. Jones and his brother, after 13 years of study, are setting out to establish a new U. S. industry, the elk meat industry. Five miles from Middleboro they bought and fenced a 6,600-acre range and experimented with a herd of ten elk. They have satisfied themselves that the following facts are dependable, about elk in general and Massachusetts...