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...slaughter it, Odin sets it free. Bendek admires that kind of spirit - "he can be whatever he chooses, par son or pirate, that one" - but he has not so much of it as Odin. On a dare from the Jörnstrand boys Odin takes Bendek's bewitched otter-gun, shoots a grey troll-creature that appears on an island offshore. When Bendek discovers that the troll-creature was his grey ram, he goes wild, sends Odin back to his mother...
...Okanagan we might as well "look for the Ogopogo." The name became popular and has spread all over the world. There are various theories as to the nature of the lake-serpent but the one which appeals to me is that it is composed of a mother otter, followed by her pups, swimming near the mouth of a creek. The pups would look like the curves of a lake-serpent...
...never out of the trenches more than 4 hours. After the War he worked on the London Daily News, then retired to a workman's cottage in Devonshire to learn to write. Other books: The Dream of Fail-Women, The Lone Swallows, Sun Brothers, The Old Stag, Tarka the Otter, The Pathway, The Wet Flanders Plain, Dandelion Days...
...Otter Tail Lake in the State of Minnesota, Death came accidentally one night last week to the Rev. Ole John Kvale.† He went to bed all alone in his summer cottage, "Trail's End." All night he was alone. Sometime in the hours of darkness, tongues of flames (perhaps from the gasoline lamp) lapped the cottage and consumed it. In the morning a man, coming to rent land, found the charred skeleton of a building, and upon what had been a sleeping porch, beside what had been a cot, a body...
Died. Rev. Ole John Kvale, 60, of Benson, Minn., U. S. Representative from Minnesota (successor to Andrew J. Volstead) ; when his cottage at Otter Tail Lake, Minn., burned...