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...MEADOW OF DREAMS No Man's Land lies before me, That once was a Meadow Where fairies foregathered And Elfs made their play; 'Tis the saddest, most desolate Hell of a Meadow From Dante's Inferno, Since Huns had their...
...late Harry Payne Whitney's Which-one by four lengths. It was supposed to be a match race again last week when Mrs. Payne Whitney's Derby-winner Twenty Grand ran against George D. Widener's Jamestown and Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt's Sun Meadow...
...broke out of the starting stalls together, then straightened out with Jamestown ahead and Twenty Grand last. They stayed in practically the same positions with Twenty Grand running easily and well behind the leaders as he did in the Derby, till the last turn. Then Twenty Grand and Sun Meadow began to move up and the three horses came into the stretch almost exactly abreast. In front of the stands, it suddenly seemed that Jamestown and Sun Meadow were racing on a treadmill. Twenty Grand ran a length, two lengths, three lengths ahead of them, crossed the finish line eight...
...Humboldt Valley, Nev., in 1906-07. At the height of the plague there were from 8,000 to 12,000 mice per acre on large ranches. In 1926 an army of house mice marched out of the Buena Vista lake basin maize fields. Meadow mice joined them. Hundreds of thousands swarmed over the country, devastated 100 sq. mi. (TIUME...
...could almost count on one's fingers and toes the people on this earth who have printed anything in defence of voles [meadow mice]; and yet in fair review there seems to more to be said for them than against them," wrote Robert Torrens Hatt, mammalogist of the American Museum of Natural History, in a monograph on meadow mice, The Biology of the Voles of New York, published in the current bulletin of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station, Syracuse, N. Y. Mouse Man Hatt's brief for mice: They till the soil with their burrowings...