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...Smith and his squaw Wapoola. Cherry Creek, alternately dry and flooded, divided the settlement into Auraria City (after Russell's hometown in Georgia) and Denver City (after Governor James W. Denver). In 1860 a bridge across the creek was finished, people from both sides met on the bridge by moonlight, shook hands, made speeches and the name Auraria City was dropped. Since bricks were cheaper than lumber where few trees grew, brick houses soon replaced the rows of frame shacks...
...death by his tutor Abdul who, despite profuse apologies, was always "boring upon" his time. When the day of departure came, however, he was half sad to leave these queer Hindus. They, with their queer illogic, hit the nail of his experience on the head: "Four days of moonlight-then darkness," say they, sadly contemplating life...
...Wrong," said '95, "it all began in 1907 or thereabouts. The fountains had just been set up when two seniors returned from Boston after examinations. They returned much as boys do now after Divisionals, for man does not change though the institutions of man do. In the moonlight they saw the sparkling water, heard the long drawn chuckle, felt the oppressive Cambridge heat. They smiled with heavy assurance each upon the other. Here was a method more amusing and quicker than a cold bath. And in the waiting silence a profounder laugh was added to the long drawn chuckle...
...does the Vagabond range his forces? There can be but one choice, but one loyalty--with '28. '95 is too old and '35 is too young, but we, in our time, we have known. Give back the Cambridge heat, the long drawn chuckle, and the water sparkling in the moonlight. The Bourbons have gone, but the Lily remains. Guy Fawkes is dead, but they hunt him out each year in quivering candle light. In 1797 Venice was only a beautiful town when the last Doge Lodovico threw his golden ring into the sea. And the Yard is taken from...
Familiar to residents of southern California is the grunion, or sand-smelt (Athenmdae), a little fish that comes out on the beach at high tide, stands on its tail and dances in the moonlight. But few Cahfornians have inquired into the reason tor this strange nocturnal dance. In the May issue of Field & Stream, Fisherman Neil Frost described a grunion run, explained the dance...