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...tame, but it scared shit out of the Secret Service agents assigned to keep an eye on the demonstrator. Harris, wearing a placard that said "wolves are better wild than worn," told interested passersby that the wolf is an endangered species. The economic incentive for killing wolves (a single pelt brings about $200 from clothing manufacturers) must be ended, he said...
...just think the weather's been too warm to sleep, but they might just know that they've got a long rest ahead of them, too. In addition, the experts say our little friends have very thick coats this winter. A trapper in Easton, N.H., showed me the pelt of a golden red fox he trapped last week, and carefully compared it to similar pelts he's taken in previous years. "The weathah's been tricky foh the pahst coupla wintahs," he told me, taking a big piece of a pine branch out of his mouth...
...full of dominant and submissive roles, populated with kings, queens and knaves. The butt of ceaseless fertility jokes turns out to be the master-or rather mistress-of birth control; when overcrowded or undernourished, the rabbit "resorbs" its embryos in utero. Adams' industrious Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig are pelt-deep fictions; in the real world, male rabbits are lallygagging drones. The does, contrary to those powder puffs in Watership Down, dig the burrows, run the homes and defend their young with Amazonian ferocity against such formidable enemies as the ferret, stoat and weasel...
...Miss., "is that this is a long, slow crest. The odds against being spared heavy April rains go up every day. We are hoping that we can get through the next couple of weeks without a big downpour." That hope seemed dashed early last weekend as rains began to pelt parts of the lower river valley and flash flood warnings went out for the entire state of Mississippi, but the rains mercifully let up, the warnings were canceled and riverbank residents returned to their normal activities-which include watching the river. As one Mississippian said, "Dat Ole Man sure...
JANE A. VAN PELT Alexandria...