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Near Los Angeles a hawk seized a snake which was consuming a gopher, carried it aloft, striking a high tension wire which electrocuted all three. The wire fell, started a forest fire...
...companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed near Panama's Chagres River. He has hired a convict to take him to the spot where the last one was slain...
...deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm. The spider runs amok, hangs the two convicts from the rafters, drains them of blood, but not before one of them has annoyed the heroine by locking her in the spider's closet...
...subject for this great plaster painting, Artist Orozco chose the legend of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec feathered snake-god, patron of arts. Officials of Dartmouth found this suitable. The college was founded by Missionary Eleazar Wheelock to convert the Indians...
...mystery about the boy. But to his little brother Loup and his cousin Jan he is just a playmate and friend. Now & then something happens to change their minds. At the sight of suffering, Christophe is occasionally overwhelmed with an agony of pity. Once, when Jan strikes at a snake, a welt mysteriously appears across Christophe's back. At such moments of agony it seems to Christophe that he is seeing things already experienced by him long ago. He longs to speak the half-remembered words spoken by him then, but the words do not come, and the Galilean...