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...breakfast, encountered a lion on the third green, where it had just made its kill. One of the players went back to the clubhouse for a rifle, and potted the lion. The head of the zebra, upon which the lion had been feasting, was saved and mounted as a souvenir. Ralph Paine's comment, when the tale was told him at Mombasa, was that meeting a lion on the third green would have put him off his game at least two strokes a hole. The unemotional Englishmen who had to play the lion as-an extra hazard, of course resumed...
...University Register is at last on sale. Its belated appearance can probably be explained by unusual difficulties or something of that kind, but it is unfortunately true that by this time of the year its only possible value is as a souvenir. The Catalogue and the Directory have already performed whatever services were necessary; the Register comes out with a great deal of exceedingly interesting information with which everyone is now familiar, but which would have been of the utmost importance in November. And this fardiness of the Register is not a new thing; it may almost be called...
Laurence Stalling-: "Undeniably entertaining ... a genuine souvenir of the Theatre...
...accomplished such surprising feats with his miniature plane, will return to France convinced that the perils of flying are slight indeed compared with the dangers of landing in the American countryside. A fall left his little machine practically undamaged, but a single night at the mercy of souvenir hunters resulted in its utter ruin. Not only the wings but the engine were dissected and ravished away; and this patron of low-power craft finds himself robbed of his entire equipment...
...petty but altogether barbarous vice. If M. Barbot had remained with his machine, his overalls or whatever aviators wear, would probably be decorating some New Jersey villa; certainly Boston women assailed the fair Rodolpho as furiously as ever the Bacchanalian revellers rent poor Orpheus. The Enthusiasm of the demoniac souvenir-fiend is boundless, and if half of the present monuments are to be kept for posterity to admire, vigorous measures will have to be adopted...