Word: squirrel
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...quickly establish a relationship with the woods. All your senses are engaged. You stop to examine wildflowers and taste fresh cold water from a fast brook. You hear the forest's noises-birds, rain hitting the leaves, a squirrel or porcupine scurrying out of your path...
...Tale of Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin, by Beatrix Potter, Dover; $1 each...
...Gambino gunmen cornered Lombardi and his girl friend in a motel room, forced the couple into their car and then drove them to a secluded roadside. After killing Lombardi, the gunmen were about to finish off the girl friend when they were interrupted by the chattering of a squirrel. Mistaking the animal for a human witness, the hit men loosed a fusillade into the bushes and fled. The squirrel died, but the girl friend, shot once in the neck, survived and gave police a detailed description of the assailants. If nothing else, as the joke went, the gunmen could...
...home plate. So much so, in fact, that a stereotype was created of the catcher as a slightly more alert version of Steinbeck's fabled Lennie, as a good-natured dolt who blocked pitches and flying spikes by day, then lumbers out of the clubhouse stroking a dead squirrel in his coat pocket. The catcher's cumbersome equipment was even dubbed the "tools of ignorance" by one of the trade's own, "Muddy" Ruel of the old Washington Senators, whose unenviable job it was to bring down Walter Johnson's smoking fastball. But ignorance...
...editor in chief of Harper's told about a grownup visit to his tiny home town, Yazoo City, Miss., back in 1967. This book, written for his son who lives in New York, celebrates Morris' boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more contemporary than Huck Finn could remember it all that...