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...ordinary cats. They are not even hybrids between cats and rabbits, as some Manxmen believe. According to Zoologist Frederick Zeuner of London, they are genetic freaks: "mutations with a tailless characteristic apparently linked with high-leggedness." The type probably originated when one tailless, mutant tomcat managed to impress his character on a large number of descendants. The name of this Adam torn is not known, or even whether he operated in the Isle of Man, but ever since his time, cat breeders interested in taillessness have been frustrated by the capriciousness of his divergent genes...
...selfless imitation of Christ could not fail to impress the Tuareg. They called him the Great White Marabout (holy man), and kissed the hem of his robe. But by the middle of World War I, a group of fanatic Moslems, incited by the Turks, had marked him for capture. A native trusted by Abbé de Foucauld decoyed him from the new French fort at Tamanrasset. Grilled by his captors, he prayed in silence, made no resistance, and said only: "Baghi n'mout-This is the hour of my death." Shortly after, his chief captor put a carbine muzzle...
...quite clear, of course, that he's out to impress...
...Professor Furry didn't impress me as an honest witness," Kearney added. "He remembered only those things he wanted to remember." In refusing to answer so many questions. "Furry made a fool of himself," Kearney said...
...time to do any serious development work. Their properties are largely unknown . . . For every company that strikes it rich, literally dozens will fall by the wayside. And for every speculator who makes a fortune, thousands wind up with nothing but worthless stock." But that word of caution could scarcely impress a construction company clerk when the screen reported his stock at $2.45. "I got in at 8?," he said. "I'm just holding...