Word: serpents
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From time to time over 15 years, people have seen an enormous sea serpent glubbing about in Idaho's Payette Lake. Most of them kept their mouths shut. But someone always talked...
...beaches, and beef cattle graze in a Western-story valley below. The star-spangled nights at Payette Lake are beautifully clear; only the city-bred get any feel of the banshee, the barghest, the ouphe (rhymes with out) or other beasts prominent in monster husbandry. So Idahoans discounted serpent talk. And the serpent himself, a shy thing, appeared only at rare intervals, always at twilight...
...often as not he works into his painting some dramatic animal-like machine like the one this week. They are almost his trademark today; perhaps you remember the flying freight-cars behind Air Transport's General George-the sea serpent submarines around Nazi Admiral Doenitz-or the pistol-pointing battleship behind smirking Admiral Nagano of the Japanese Navy...
...Bolton Abbey, Compton Place, Lismore Castle in Ireland and a town house in Carlton Gardens (now a heap of blitzed rubble). The Cavendishes rank well up among the "twelve families that own England." Their coat of arms: sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent with a crest of a serpent nowed proper and two bucks, each wreathed round the neck with a chaplet of roses, argent and azure, as supporters. The Cavendish motto: Cavendo Tutus, Secure by Caution...
...lieutenant claimed that a snake had a dugout below his, that whenever he drew a bead on the serpent it fox-holed...