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Before the word "Go" had echoed over the Orange County hills, the leaders were passing the stands, their program numbers stuck in their manes like Court of St. James's plumes. Queen Victoria was in front, followed by big Remus, tallest trot ter (17.2 hands) on U. S. tracks and little Kuno, last year's two-year-old champion. As they rounded the first turn of the three-cornered track, all Goshen shook with a mighty roar. Spencer Scott, the favorite, began to move up on the outside...
...Hambletonian: Indianapolis' Stallion Stake, Toledo's Matron Stake and Narragansett's National Stake. At Goshen last week Fred Egan's Baby did not let his followers down. He made a runaway of the first heat, crossed the finish line (half a length in front of Remus, two in front of Kuno) in 2:02, fastest time chalked up by a three-year-old trotter this year...
From Romulus and Remus, mythical wolf-suckled founders of Rome, to modern times, the world's folklore is full of tales of human children reared in the wilds by animals, and such tales have flowered in fiction from Kipling's Mowgli to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. Very few, nevertheless, are the cases, authenticated to the satisfaction of science, of moppets growing up in forest or jungle without human contacts, whether with or without animal foster parents. One authentic woodland waif was the "Wild Boy of Aveyron," found in a French forest in 1799. Others were Amala...
...Katzenjammer Kids" and "The Captain and the Kids," Represented by three editions is "Slovenly Peter," the most popular children's book ever written, with over 8,000,000 copies turned out thus far. Original drawings are shown for the "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear" stories of Uncle Remus, whose real name was A. B. Frost...
Fifteen of the 156: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, The Story of a Bad Boy, Little Lord Fontleroy, Goops and How to Be Them, The Last of the Mohicans, Freckles, Tarzan of the Apes, Pollyanna, Beautiful...