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...your part-is that Yellowstone Park is becoming overstocked with buffalos and the cost of feeding them is growing greater every year. Originally, only a few animals could be obtained to stock the Park, and the Department feared that the species would soon become extinct. Not so. The herd grew steadily, until now there are 730 fine specimens of this healthy breed. Last Spring alone, there were 114 calves. The Interior is unwilling to kill these animals, and so offers them, a limited number, to those lucky citizens who apply in time-ABSOLUTELY FREE...
...citizens complained that 100 vagrant goats had taken possession of the freight-yard district, butted the residents, overturned swill buckets, eaten clotheslines, rosebushes, awnings. Police, five dog-catchers, two Health Department Inspectors, Humane Society Agents, a squad of detectives geared out with lassos and dog-nets, harried the herd of whiskered miscreants, caught nine...
...hundred are mentally capable of obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree, it may very, well be that the high rate of insanity among college students is due to the fact that their minds are composed of a finer, more delicately tragic material than are those of the common herd; that while they are capable of more Intricate and more subtle machinations, they are also more subject to derangement. If this is the case, the present college population may be divided roughly into two groups--those who have come safely through Divisionals and are still able to count...
...comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members of the common herd...
President Coolidge, having received the letter, and having been advised that Mr. Pinchot's Prohibition passion had been mixed with senatorial soup, could endure no more. He, indignant, wrote to the Senate of the U. S. a letter which caused that august herd to snort and trumpet like so many hippopotami surprised at the feeding hour...