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...pressed on her mistress. Next day she brought home another dollar. Each day for the following fortnight Dumpy brought home a dollar a day, never more, never less. Some of the bills were old-issue, large-sized dollars, most were current certificates. Only clue was that Dumpy's snout was dirty, her paws muddy...
...disease-ridden, it was nevertheless teeming with the beasts he wanted. Hundreds of specimens collected by the Sanderson expedition had never been bagged before. One of the first animals he encountered was a horrible, smelly little creature named the shrew. It looks like a rat with a long snout and eats anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson's beasts were no less odd. He captured several varieties of frogs that changed color and one that grew hair. He got into a fight with a herd of drills, which are a kind of baboon, and they...
Greatest tropical animal rarity in the Western Hemisphere is the solenodon, a little insectivorous beast resembling the opossum, smaller but with a similar ratty tail and a limber prehensile snout. Zoologists know it as the family Solenodontidae, which has but a single genus: solenodon. Classified as an extremely primitive form of animal, its skeletal structure is prehistoric. It dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last...
Achilles is a Cornell pig, neurotic pet of that university's Prof. Howard Scott Liddell. Prof. Liddell taught Achilles to get an apple by lifting the lid of a box with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes...
...kicked our hand and the soup can off his snout. Blood flowed like a waterfall. He jumped to his feet and wriggled free from the professor who tried to grab him as he leaped to the floor. He spat malevolently at both of us. And he fled with a shriek of triumph through the open door...