Word: leopardess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...animals loved variously. With the emu, the Australian ostrich, it was the males who cared for the children, guarding them against their morose mothers. The leopardess flirted by flicking her tail in the face of her mate until he sprang with fang and claw, snarling, whirling. The giraffes, a bull and two cows loved daintily, with acute tremblings. Lions "laughed and kissed in their delight." Then "I heard the song of the ape-man . . . [it] resounded in powerful alternations, Aw-Aw-Aw-H-u-u-uh, as tremendous as the lions' roar. It was the song of primitive life...
...brief, Mrs. Holmes' gloomiest prophesies prove true, the leopardess cannot change her spots, matters go from bad to worse in the Holmes household and Mrs. Alf begins to cut fancy capers once more, until expelled from the household by the returning Mrs. Holmes
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