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Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...
...Takes Over. Instructions are usually given in the crudest of pidgin English. If a plane is known to be down in the bush an officer may order: "Charlie No. 2, you all along go find a motor-car-run-along-sky come down that way." (The number distinguishes this tracker from Charlie...
...said cow, which belongs to the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, armed only with a hacksaw and speeded by the well wishes of the mob, the Colonel outdid himself in consummating the capture alive, in contrast to his epic adventure with the skunk last spring. Fred Hoeing, notorious woodchuck tracker, Harvard's other big game hunter, last night sent the Colonel his hearty congratulations by telegraph, collect...
...haven't read Rugged Water and like stories of sea and character, do; and if you want to read one of the most striking animal stories for the past ten years, look in the current Ladies' Home Journal for Zane Grey's The Wolf Tracker...
...reading and artistic illustration. The contents are as follows: "Rugged Labrador," by R. G. Taber; "Duck Shooting on Great South Bay," by J. D. Knap; "Old Plute's Gobbler," by Charles E. Taylor; "Over Ifinger Jock," by Jean Porter Rudd; "A Rondeau Muskallonge," by Ed. W. Sandys; "A Ceylon Tracker," by F. Fitzroy Dixon; "Through an Autumn Gale;" "Banana Land Awhell," by E. M. Aaron; "A Shot at a Shadow," by Paul Pastnor; "Lenz's World Tour Awheel;" "A Bit of Blue Ribbon," by Sara Beaumont Kennedy; "The International Athletic Match," by Wm. B. Curtis; "New Hampshire National Guard...