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...Albie Booth's last minutes drop kick which smashed the undefeated record of Barry Wood's team in 1931. Oh yes, a Bulldog pelt is always a welcome sight in the Crimson trophy room, but one was never more eagerly awaited than that belonging to this year's litter of "Ducky" Pond's invincible blue pups...
...Wilmington, N. C. last August, Mrs. Annie Mae Gannon's cat littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with...
...ladies to sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms and kitchens. Triumphing in its wantonness it emptied the streets; swept flesh before it; and coming smack into a dust cart standing outside the Army and Navy Stores, scattered along the pavement a litter of old envelopes; twists of hair; papers already blood smeared, yellow smeared, smudged with print and sent them scudding to plaster legs, lamp posts, pillar boxes, and fold themselves frantically against area railings." It takes more than graceful, ingenious or suggestively beautiful writing to earn an author the name of "great...
...Making his fifth try this year, the gallant, hammer-headed old pointer seemed shaky and uncertain, spent much time roaming off course, located only two coveys. Saddler, a 4-year-old pointer who should have known better, disgraced himself by scooting off after a calf, pouncing on a litter of shoats, killing one and getting himself butted into a gulley...
...from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another 26 bushels of potatoes along with a small stand of corn and beans. Corn and other...