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From the Argentine came news of a new mammal, the kangarfox, with a body like a kangaroo, a cat's head, the fur of a fox and "the soft, melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player...
Although most of the furriers' dealings, judged by bulk, seem to have been in cat fur, the pelts of other animals also came upon the block, including black bear, grizzly bear, polar bear, ocelot, wolf, Canadian baum marten, Japanese marten, cross fox, fisher, flying squirrel, Chinese weasel, pahmi and Gold Coast monkey...
...Libretto. L'Enfant, a favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors. Does he learn his lessons? Far from it; this enfant, is idle and, when his Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue...
...into a dark valley. The moon lifts the white of an eye over a cloud, but lightless in the glade he wanders; the forest talks to him in many voices; night presses her hands over his eyes. Ever lie hear.; in his heart the voice of the once happy squirrel, reproaching him for the hurt he did her furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with fumbling care...
...Coolidge cat, scratched by an embattled squirrel on the White House lawn, was a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital. Rob Roy, Mrs. Coolidge's white collie, was sent to the same hospital for skin treatment...