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Merlyn's method of education is to put the Wart through more metamorphoses than a moth ever dreamed of. Ffft! The Wart is a fish, learning self-preservation from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories of evolution, a badger, learning about adaptation, an owl, learning how trees and stones talk (so slowly that they could be heard only if time passed at the rate of 30 years per minute...
That President George Baker Longan of the Kansas City Star hates and fears snakes has long been known (TIME, Aug. 8, 1930). Star editors and reporters are under strict orders to keep snakes out of its columns at almost any cost. Last week newsmen had two new, choice Star v. snake anecdotes to savor...
...Roosevelt, printed a curt paragraph explaining that "a visit Mrs. Roosevelt made yesterday to a reptile farm in Sarasota, Fla., contained no information the Star believes its readers would enjoy. . . ." Not until last week did Mrs. Roosevelt learn the reason her column was dropped-the Star's old snake taboo. She had devoted a paragraph to telling how rattlers and moccasins are "milked" for medical purposes...
...snows of the Big Horn Mountains. North it flows, joined by Salt Creek, Dugout Creek, Pumpkin Creek, Wild Horse Creek and Crazy Woman Creek. Bitterly alkaline, mushy with quicksand, flanked for 100 miles by badlands, Powder River is nothing compared with such rushing beauties as the Feather, the Snake, the Salmon...
...production is the beer: after the fourth or fifth schooner the audience roundly cheers the Harvard man for refusing to touch liquor, just as roundly cheers the Girl from Wyoming (June Walker) for having been weaned on it, loudly hisses a villain who looks like a referee at a snake race...