Word: strayed
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Babe, a collie-shepherd cross of St. Louis, who, with the help of a stray puppy, fished a small boy out of a sewer...
...earned money as a flower girl and match-seller. She would clout fighting drunkards apart, would take stray babies...
...Detroit, Mich., R. V. Wayne, who has befriended some 10,000 stray cats in his lifetime, found that robbers had made off with his Cadillac car and a kitten with 23 toes which was sitting in the back seat. Perturbed, R. V. Wayne offered a reward for the return of the kitten...
...narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half a loaf of bread and a large piece of goat's milk cheese down the narrow 50-ft. well to keep...
Just what extra-curriculum activities engaged Mr. Eaton during the ensuing period is not clear. But something must have kept him busy, for when during the panic of 1907 a member of the congregation made a proposition, he was able to secure some stray public utilities in Iowa. No slow-growing oaks sprang from these little acorns. Within eight years he was estimated to control $2,000,000,000 of invested money in Mid-West gas, power, light and traction companies. Now he is one of the foremost U. S. utility men, has been especially active in developing the United...