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...Tarawa, where he landed with the early waves, Siwash routed, single-winged, a Jap rooster...
...great tradition cheek by jowl with some of the curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views of gracious colonial staircases, the tower of St. Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal drawings from Brickell's The Natural History of North Carolina. The book is divided into ten chapters, the first covering the years between Columbus...
Favorite picture with adults: an outsize rooster crowing against a farm background (see cut). Children seemed to prefer a brilliant pair of fish, one red, one blue. "Mighty fine fish," said one nine-year-old gallerygoer, "but they don't seem to be in no water...
...Making Money." Light was just sneaking over the horizon; a rooster crowed overhead. Toffey was radio-talking to the regimental commander, Lieut. Colonel Ashton Manhart, when a spatter of machine-gun and rifle fire broke out. "We're starting to make some money now," calmly said Toffey over the radio...
...Stinker, Chiseler!" At first Arpad was an ordinary rooster, with abundant tail feathers. To give the bird distinction, Pause defeathered him gradually, removing a little more tail each time Arpad appeared (usually only once a week) and adding clothes as he did so. It took six months, but not a reader noticed...