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Even after the Houses were built, the Crime still bore malice to the system. The CRIMSON castigated both the sublimity of Lowell high tables, which it labelled "aristocratic tendencies" and the ridiculousness of the rabbit coat-of-arms used on the wrong side of the Plympton tracks...
...stirred old memories of a heart-warming acquaintance with a Liverpool family whose hospitality and friendship made 1944 a year which I now look back to with singular pleasure . . . There were three children in this family . . . they probably have grown up now and forget our many recitations of Peter Rabbit's excursions to the garden of Mr. McGregor . . . However, "Uncle Chips" remembers...
...Happy Place, Ludwig Bemelmans serves up the recipe that he first concocted many years ago for adult consumption ; it consists of some absurd character put down-in a setting that is just around the block and dolloped with matter-of-fact nonsense. His present hero, a city rabbit named Winthrop, is not conjured out of a top hat but from the place city rabbits normally come from-"a toy village enclosed by chicken wire and located in Section B, on the sixth floor of a big New York department store." Winthrop is first reduced from $2.98 to $1.78 because...
Mookie, out of sight, worked efficiently. Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...
...Deadly Trio. By the time Stehle arrived at the scene of the kill, Diana had the rabbit pinned, one foot on its back, the other on its head, her wings tenting the prey. She whimpered excitedly while Stehle distracted her with a spare piece of rabbit meat and took the kill from her claws. The rabbit was pouched and Diana was re-thonged. Ferret Mookie stayed underground while the hawk was airborne, but he quickly emerged and was re-pocketed to await the next assignment...