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...emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still that calf kept a "lectle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately,- sp-t-t-t-r,- the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after...
HARLEY: I had a dog one time who used to lay on his back in the sun. Just lay there with his hind legs all spread out, you know, and his tongue hanging out of his mouth. He was laying there like that one day and a wagon ran over him. He never laid that way again. He always walked funny after that. He was a good dog, though. Sam Breedlaw give him to me. Sam's married to my sister. He's a chamberpot and pin drummer...
...After 15 years of marriage (four children), I thought the line from "Bedroom Athletics" to "move your pelvis and be hind as if they were loaded with ball bearings" would bring a chuckle from my wife. To my amazement she leaped from her chair and began to demonstrate her golf swing while muttering, "That must be the trouble...
...spread, we've shot 20,000 'roos in the last four years and there's still lots left." Also vanishing, at least in wild areas: the koala "Teddy bear" and the Tasmanian wolf, a zebra-striped, carnivorous marsupial that often hops kangaroo-like on its hind legs...
...been picking up speed for a full ten years, Japan whistled past Britain in gross national product in 1967, then France in 1968. Last year it surpassed West Germany. With a G.N.P. that is expected to reach $200 billion this year, Japan now ranks third in the world, be hind only the U.S. ($932 billion) and the Soviet Union ($600 billion). U.S. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans says that Japan "could very well" move to the head of the class in the next 20 years. Says Economist Peter Drucker: "It is the most extraordinary success story in all economic history...