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That was three months ago. Since then Warder Johns has trapped 16 more wild Tower cats which he believes to be the atavistic descendants of pet tabbies kept by troops stationed there during the last war. Last week he was setting his traps for the last of them.
Two pigeons lay headless on the very greensward of the medieval Tower of London where Anne Boleyn's head had rolled. "At night," said one of the Tower's famed Beefeaters last week, "we heard awful noises in the casements." Yeoman Quartermaster Thomas Johns set out four traps...
The crowded inhabitants of big cities tried to live cannily. They avoided hot subway gratings and steaming manholes as martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber'...
After deliberately letting Kid Gavilan set a fast pace for five rounds, Robinson opened his bag of tricks. He set traps and sprung them with a master's touch (e.g., following three left jabs with a left hook instead of an orthodox right). By the 10th round, ringsiders had...
Hidden Cyanide. Following man, coyotes have enormously extended their range, which now reaches from Central America to Alaska. They kill so many sheep that since 1915 the Federal Government has been systematically destroying them, a fact which Author Dobie deplores. Their new enemies are the cyanide-gun devices now used...