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...Cubs and Braves in a bunch behind. Ott's nervous stomach, which put him to bed for two weeks when his 1943 Giants slumped into last place, began acting up. He cajoled, threatened, finally fined players. The only thing still left untried: hiring a hackman to drive a wagonload of barrels (a traditional omen of good luck) around the Polo Grounds. But there was a shortage of barrels...
Smith was wont to ride into each town perched majestically on the topmost bale of a wagonload of cotton...
...advancing. He joins the army, deserts again when near his home, is arrested, recognized by a brother officer, released, swept up in the retreat, reaches Renée just ahead of the German troops. He finds Armand mad, his wife an old woman. Piling his family into a passing wagonload of corpses, he carts them to safety, only to have Renée and Armand killed by a chance shell far behind the lines. Pierre goes as crazy as the rest of his family, babbling that he is a deserter while his daughter tags along after him unrecognized...
...trench, twelve feet long and six feet wide in good British soil at Carshalton, Surrey, workmen last week laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
...Kansas City William F. Corliss spread a blanket on a wagonload of potatoes, lay down on the blanket to sleep. As he snored, Farmer Corliss sank lower & lower in his wagon. When he woke, he lifted his head from the wagon's bottom. All his potatoes had been niched from under the snoring nose of William F. Corliss...