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...George Lewis. Recalling a traditional procedure,† he set five loaves adrift, having to guess where to start them as Mrs. Lewis had drowned unseen, while fishing, her empty boat being the only clue. Four loaves floated idly about. One came to a purposeful halt. Grappling beneath the arrested loaf, Sergeant Bushy brought up Mrs. Lewis's body...
What, if any, laws govern the attraction of a dead body for a loaf of bread, scientists have never determined. One theory: the same currents that carry a body into a backwater or hole under an eddy, will carry a loaf of bread to that spot, on the surface...
...Late in the afternoon they reached Selfridge Field, 40 minutes apart, and were surprised not to find Flyer Bettis there before them. An hour passed; the sun sank, and still no Bettis. It looked odd. Flyer Bettis, winner of last year's Pulitzer Race, was no man to loaf along. . . . Lieutenants Smith and Williams left Michigan in the dark, for Pennsylvania...
...gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain, off to the shore to split waves with his strong body and loaf on the warm sand...
...small farmers, etc.); working intermittently for the Crown, usually at ditch cleaning or road-making; collecting wild birds' eggs for city oologists. The women go into the towns in rags, carrying their grubby offspring to excite pity and alms from passing motorists. The men, for the most part, loaf about, in and under their wagons...