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...afternoon last week three British officers from the big cruiser H. M. S. Devonshire shoved off in a ship's boat for what Britons afterwards called "a sail and a swim." Their pleasure took them within wading distance of Turkey's forbidden shore. Suddenly, out of the underbrush raced ten Turkish coast guards brandishing rifles and shaking their fists...
...broad ribs with their hands & knees. Slowly the moose revived, began bellowing and thrashing. The Scatarie's crew lashed him stoutly, carried him in shore and. tying a metal tag to one antler, lowered him over the side to go crashing and snorting off into the underbrush...
Like Professor Babbitt, Mr. Jones offers no plan for reconstruction. He is sick of plans, and all the pictures of graph-mad and system-ridden normal school experimenters which they connote. He merely desires a healthy clearing of the underbrush of American education, and an unplanned but carefully nurtured reforestation of sound principles...
...Governor General Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, in England on leave, tried to catch a drunken monkey on his Hampshire estate by swooping on it in an airplane, dropping a net. The monkey, which had taken to the Earl's whiskey, escaped in the underbrush...
With 22 other huntsmen, including an oldtime Michigan wolf hunter, Mayor Demarest set out into the snow-covered hills. Breaking up into groups of four or five, the party tramped 15 miles through tangled underbrush, climbed rocky ledges, threaded swamps. They came back that night with one year-old wild dog. Explained Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen: "The dogs made fools of us. They are smarter than wolves. When we retraced our path we found the snow broken with prints. They had been following us. One pad print was more than three inches wide...