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...longer being pursued, that the hounds, far behind now, were barking at something else. Had the rabbit been sufficiently curious to double on its tracks and see what had caused the hounds to stop, it would have seen an extraordinary sight. The hounds were baying wildly around a thicket in a clump of woods behind the Phipps polo-field. Into the thicket, to find out what was there, went Mrs. Hitchcock's whip. He caught sight of a man. saw the man disappear into a hole in the ground. Amazed, Mrs. Hitchcock ordered her whip to tell Mrs. Phipps...
Last week in Los Angeles, Alfred Hill, 12, and three companions .went to Luna Park Zoo to go hunting. Alfred took his jackknife with him in case they met with any lions or tigers. Seeing a bushy thicket, the four boys climbed a high fence which separated the enclosure from spectators. Alfred ran ahead, knife in hand, climbed over a low wall. Suddenly he screamed. From a thicket in front of him, sprang a huge tiger. It knocked him down, mangled him badly. Melvin Koontz, the zoo cat keeper, ran for his rifle, shot the big yellow beast. Alfred...
...winter of 1916. Primarily a physician, a man of peace, he never strikes the professionally martial note. Once an artillery officer pointed out to him where the Roumanians were supposed to be, lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor the men's letters to their families. One private's words, mystic, poetical, moved him very much. When...
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...thicket near Brentwood, L. I., workmen discovered a skeleton, identified it by a repeater watch as that of Henry Lot Norton, onetime waterworks official of Jamaica, who disappeared eight years ago, died of exposure in a thunder storm...