Word: quails
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...first described the quail, grouse, and woodcock which are found in the grain fields of New England. Further south, especially in Florida, shore birds flock in great numbers, but are extremely difficult to photograph. The larger game birds,-geese, ducks and teal, are found by thousands along the lakes throughout North Dakota...
...often the result of two or more years' work. The various designs in the straw are symbolic and show the coat of arms, as it were, of the family. Although unintelligible to the European eye, to the Indian they represent collections of arrow heads, tracks of various animals, quail crests and other significant symbols...
...Yale" has but one more number to run. This installment is an account of the "Junior Prom" and Harry's engagement. It is very touching - "those moments of first, sweet love, - when your girl yields at last." There are two or three short sporting articles, "A Day with Quail in North Carolina," "A Blank Day," and others. They are good though the latter is spoilt by too many love affairs. There is an article on "Cross Country Running" by John Corbin. It is cleverly written and is decidedly above the average of the other articles of the number. The poetry...
...Yale senior has recently won a wager by eating fourteen quail on fourteen successive days...
...confidence which we so blindly placed in the power and wisdom of that mighty today, the Board of Directors, by whose will, dry crusts of bread can be turned into a savory pudding, and the debris of fricasseed chicken into a warm and nourishing hash. Instead of the quail on toast or tenderloin steaks for which we had starved ourselves for several days, we were regaled with a strange compound called beef pie, a cousin German of our old enemy beef stew, and the entirely novel expedient of fried mush...