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...late Coach Fred Mitchell has been making catchers out of every unoccupied stringer on the Varsity baseball squad. The other day he told large Al Berry, "from Baltimore, suh," to get behind the plate. When Al came walking out in his armor the squad was definitely skeptical. Charlie Nevin's remark was "Well, Al, just keep your hands in your pockets and your eyes closed and nothing will happen...
...Suh-sweet young thing. (Vanderbilt...
...Cantonese," he explained, simply, as one explains, "I am a Virginian, Suh...
...called by anyone who had the acumen to discover it." In these 13 criminal cases the silent witness is called and comes forward with damning evidence no less than 13 times. In every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools him. He can get to the bottom of a murder, forgery, theft case by glancing at a pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot...
...weevil thought. One school laments the curse which reduces the cotton yield per acre, increases production cost, is already discounted in the market price. No less stoutly the other group holds that the weevil is really a disguised blessing, "the best thing that evuh happened to the South, Suh! Why, if it weren't for boll weevil, Cotton would be selling for fo' cents a pound right...