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Even while he made his millions, Clint Sr. was never too busy for his boys. They lived in a lively, colorful and noisy household, populated by Clint Sr.'s business cronies, learned to play poker and to hunt squirrel, duck and quail in the best Texas style. When John was only ten, Clint began teaching him the basic lessons in financial gain: you can buy something, and make a profit on it, without using your own money. He sold John a calf on credit for $25, took his signed note to pay the price plus interest. Young John later...
Author O'Connor stores up these charming, nutty items like a squirrel, but unfortunately he lacks the craft for his cache...
...ribs of the little reptile, says Dr. Colbert, supported a fixed wing 10 inches from tip to tip. This enabled the creature to glide like a modern flying squirrel, but not to fly actively. Presumably its way of life was to climb trees and launch itself into gliding flight when it wanted to move to another tree or when danger threatened. On one of these glides it must have landed in the lake where its flesh was eaten by fish and its sunken skeleton was covered slowly with silt...
Gerald Durrell once awakened in pain to find a squirrel assiduously stuffing a peanut in his ear. He has crawled into a cave to lasso a python. At various times, chimpanzees have commandeered his bed and bath, mongooses have suckled maternally under his shirt, and baby rodents have waited impatiently for him to tuck the 3 a.m. hot-water bottle under their tiny feet. Animals come close to being Durrell's best friends, and as the zoologist brother of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, he writes about them with style, verve and humor...
Sitting on high-tension wires is obviously for the birds. When a bird flutters down from the air and perches on a hot wire, the deadly current rushes about inside the body but, since it is not grounded, can go no farther and does no harm. Squirrels run greater electrical risks, but it is their own fault: they have a habit of nuzzling each other. A lone squirrel can scoot safely back and forth across a wire, but when a squirrel on a charged line touches noses with a friend on a grounded tower, or swishes its tail onto another...