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Pierre Samuel du Pont, chairman of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., last week surveyed the completion of one of the most elaborate U. S, open-air theatres. On a slope of his garden at Longwood, Pa., there were turf terrace seats on which 1,200 people might sit; below these a stage winged and backed by boxwood bushes. Under the stage there were dressing rooms, lounging rooms, large-sized bathrooms. In front of the stage, fountains were ready to lift a shining silver curtain of water...
...Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above the valley of Petra. . . . The interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous story was scarcely greater than that of archaeologists. Petra is a historical mystery. It was the capital of the plundering Nabataeans whose domain, in 100 B. C., stretched from Damascus on the north to Gaza...
With their trigger-fingers itching, elephant slayers prospective and proved pondered this story from Captain Pitman: A ranger fired one .256-calibre bullet into an elephant standing in a clearing on a slope. Down fell the elephant dead, and rolled down the slope. Like any good hunter in any good story, the ranger hurried to the spot. There he found, not one dead elephant, but four dead elephants. Explanation: the shot elephant had killed two others on its downhill roll. The fourth had chosen that spot to die of bullets, evidently a month before...
Laymen despaired, but the researchers plodded ahead with tasks which very much resembled the work done nowadays by government surveyors. The continent is outlined; its lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, state and county boundaries are mapped. But here remains a pond, a creek, the slope and extent of a watershed, the soil character of an unsettled valley, whose position and specifications need determining...
Printz, barking wildly, picked his way down a tortuous slope to the dead body. There he squatted, howled until a rescue party, guided by the sound, came. Baring his short sharp teeth, growling and snarling, he kept at bay for an hour these men who he supposed had come to harm his dead master. Hastily summoned, the valet of Count Széchényi at last soothed and called off Printz. That night he planted himself on stumpy, determined legs beside his master's bier, had to be leashed and dragged away when the morticians came...