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Maine lobstermen say other U. S. lobsters are inferior to theirs. Maine lobsters are sturdy, cannibalistic, pugnacious. They will stand on their hind claws, lift their fore claws and strike out like boxers. They molt three or four times a year. After a young lobster has cast its shell it turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore...
...tossing his head up & down, Pickett's legs and feet flying like a whiplash, he was in a very dangerous and precarious position. At this very critical point, the cowboys commenced to throw their lassos, some aiming for the bull's front legs and some for his hind legs, and with this, the fed-up and disgruntled multitude commenced to throw cushions, empty beer bottles, bananas, oranges, etc., some almost nailing Pickett-and with the danger, noise, confusion and fatigue, Pickett released all holds and bit the dust instead of the bull's nose. The bull, fortunately...
...animals had been subject to privation for at least 29 days. Three died or were killed on the voyage. They were tied with their backs to the sea, and their hind quarters were covered with salt from the sea waves. Many of them were not shod. Most of them were lame, a few suffered from partial paralysis, several had been severely kicked and bitten, and two were little more than skeletons. Some of the horses were badly injured while being swung ashore, but they were beaten and prodded violently with sticks. We watched one man strike a horse 35 times...
...White House, casually mentioned to President Coolidge that he had a sea elephant in the show. Mr. Coolidge nodded his head, went to see for himself. He discovered that the sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis, hind limbs so rudimentary that they look like a big tail; broad, flat for ward flippers for swimming and spanking the young. For Mr. Coolidge's pleasure Goliath I devoured 50 Ib. of herring. Six months later a shark got into his enclosure off Sarasota. bit a piece...
...hind legs and fight for what we believe to be right with all the energy and intelligence we can command. Bernarr MacFadden in The New York Evening Graphic...