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...other. I brained the first man near me, slashed the throat of the second one with the broken bottle and laid about with the steel rod. My aim was good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush. . . . By this time the rest of the bandits began shooting. . . . I never dared to stop for a single moment. . . . I had a pretty good idea of the country and I made for Cuernavaca. I got there, all in, but safe" (Then motored to Mexico City...
...fancy. Yonder is a skyline ridge which should have a trail. A simple thought. But before it is wrought out, the details of the ground must be examined in the rough (where a mile an hour is usually the maximum); there are hours totaling days of fighting through underbrush and blowdowns, in heat, perhaps storm, usually flies. Woe to the man who does not bring to bear all his mental powers to ease his way and save his nerves instead of wearing himself out in "building through"; every step of the way and every foot of the trail...
Near Menominee, Mich., one Oscar Lebouf sighted through underbrush, squeezed his rifle-trigger, went crashing through the bushes after his bullet. Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness...
...running race is the oldest form of human athletic game. It is indubitable that barefoot Neolithic sprinters tore through the fields and underbrush in violent competition ages before the laced sandals of Spartan contestants were to be seen pounding along mountain roads in prolonged endurance tests; and the modern spiked shoe is stiil further removed from those vigorous days. The wonder of all this is that each year, each week, produces new records, the old achievements being displaced by reduced time, the most ancient of sports being improved upon with startling regularity...
...wooded estate, out from the city. . . .Deer driven through the crackling underbrush. . . A host of pursuers, disappointed because the Prince had begged to be excused...