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...coast in 1564, and was told to map and paint what he saw. A Spanish expedition wiped out the colony within a year, but Le Moyne escaped to a French ship, with a portfolio full of fastidiously painted reports. Among them: a sunrise sacrifice of a stuffed and garlanded stag, a huddle of Indian widows mourning before their king Outina and begging permission to marry again, and an exaggerated painting of an alligator hunt which might have given Europeans the idea that dragons abounded in America...
Women will also be welcome for Saturday night dinner in the Union Dining Hall. This is the first time this term that the Union has departed from its strict stag-line dining policy...
Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Princess Elizabeth, achasing the wild deer and following the roe in the glens around Musselburgh, Scotland, bagged a twelve-point stag...
...favorite ways of tormenting himself, the professor notes, is to consider himself lower than the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air-to see all animals as "furry little parables." The noble stag, for example, is famed for his readiness to defend his trembling does; in fact, he always runs like hell and rejoins the ladies only when danger is past...