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Putting His Foot Down. In Carthage, S.Dak., when the city auditor sent out notices for dog licenses addressed to the dogs, Vergil Herron followed suit, sent back a check for the license signed with the paw print...
...chatted with dozens of friends and dozens of strangers who pressed against a nearby fence ("Howya feeling, Mr. Fitz?" "I'm feeling fine now"). Then Groom Wendel Griffith brought in Progressing, and Mr. Fitz set to work. Progressing began to act up badly. "Stop trying to put your paw in Wendel's pocket," said Mr. Fitz. He bent under the fidgeting horse, tapped him lightly on the knee with his wooden cane and scolded: "Stop that!" Progressing stopped it. "Maybe he just wants to run," said Mr. Fitz hopefully...
...Manyara, Tanganyika, enraged over a fight with her husband, a woman tried to commit suicide by offering herself to a lion, was airily dismissed by the lion with a wave of his paw as he continued to munch on a freshly slain zebra...
Incense for Paw. At Oxford, Ronald Knox was briefly "infected" with the impediment of Fabian socialism. He shortly parodied his drawing-room-pink period...
Still Life. In San Francisco, U.S. Revenooer Jack Courtney investigated a cache of illegal moonshine in Chinatown, emptied three 5-gal. pickle jars of the grog down a drain, found that the dregs consisted of two chickens, two hawks and a monkey's paw...