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...Each year the masters of Merton College, Oxford, dispatch from the Hythe police station in rural Kent the Hythe Tithe Expeditionary Force, whose duty is to collect for Merton from each farm one-tenth of its harvested crops, one-tenth of its yearly litter of hogs, sheep, cows and chickens...
...said as he backed from the room toward the French doors. When Billy and the two girls ran to the shattered doors, they saw the man fleeing across the soggy rear lawn and down the slope toward Commencement Bay, with Charles held tightly under his arm. In the litter of broken glass at their feet they picked up this crude pocket-worn note that appeared to have been printed on a child's toy printing...
...with Mrs. Charles's cousin; a Chinese restaurateur (William Law) who looks like an owl, and a dancing girl (Dorothy McNulty), one of whose relatives is one of the total of three corpses discovered in the course of the entertainment. Good shot: Asta, inspecting his mate's litter of puppies, amazed to find a black one that looks like the Scotty next door...
...University of California, a female rat known as BH-17543 gave birth to a litter of 18. Previous record for a litter of rats...
...nearly always the case in London, the sport was founded on a letter to the editor of the Times. A gentleman had an idea, he wrote in, the letter was published and the game was born. . . . His description of the 'squealing up,' with his groundskeeper, of a litter of fox cubs will give an idea of the fascination of the sport...