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...start digging furiously under the admiring eyes of their owners. Once the swine discover the fungus, a few inches under the ground, the keeper must be alert and ready, unless he has an unusually fine animal. When keeper spies truffle, he slaps the pig on the snout with a rod, seizes the truffle, rewards the pig with a few acorns...
...loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such was the anxiety of the adapters to provide a happy ending that the spectator is left undecided. When handsome Conrad Nagel as the tutor drives away and Miss Gish elopes with Rod La Rocque, the entire cast seems satisfied. Best shot: a rustic politician reading his address of welcome to the visiting prince...
...blown a whistle, scattered food to the minnows. Soon, he said, they learned what the whistle meant, would rush to the top with gaping mouths whenever it was blown. Later he procured another whistle of lower tone. He would blow this, then spank the rising fish with a glass rod. Soon they learned the meaning of the new whistle, would cower at bottom when it was blown, but still come gaping to the surface when the food whistle blew...
...foreground was a large cylinder, its sides removed, revealing a substantial piston rod about five inches in diameter. Just beyond was a large square hole in the floor, affording a glance down to the gloomy interior of the plant through a maze of pipes...
...wind was coming up when Oilman Walter Teagle's defending champion, the Pointer Mary Blue (TIME, March 3) was set down. She found one less bevy-six to seven-than her brace mate, the Setter Rod M's Dan. But all could see she was the fresher dog at the finish. For half a heat in another brace the pointer bitch called Brighthurst Mary Proctor ran so brilliantly that she looked like a champion, but suddenly she folded up and it was Mary Blu against Feagin's Mohawk Pal- the pointer-setter final everyone had wanted...