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...mild surprise. As well-versed Audubon fans know, the painter devoted his later years to an ambitious series entitled Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. But Audubon did not include his brown & white bull in Quadrupeds. Other four-legged creatures among the Hallstrom pictures are weasels, snow rabbits, a stoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rare Birds | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session, I'm like a rabbit at a stoat's tea party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Respectable Rabbit | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...shock to meet his first hross-a cat-whiskered cross between a snake, a seal and a stoat. It was just as much of a shock for the hross to meet a hmãn. Fortunately, they were both hnau (thinking animals) and after jointly slaying a hnakra, a jabberwockative monster, the hross made Ransom his blood hnakrapunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Hm | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...Detroit, Hotel Manager William 0. Seelbach, thinking (with a wink) to insure the city against rain during an outdoor industrial exhibition, invited 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. (TIME, April 10) to come to Detroit while the show was on, without her umbrella. Rain Maker Stoat refused to come. It rained and snowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Joke | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Frostproof, Fla., fruit growers worried by a five-month drought sought out 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. Her method (which, she says, has never failed in over 400 trials) : find a likely-looking body of water, sit by it several hours daily until it rains. For four days, on and off, she sat by Lake Reedy. Then it began to pour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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