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Last year and the year before Captain Brown sailed round the world. Every year since he left the trade of the sea he has yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...
Died. Richard Woodget, 82, captain of the Cutty Sark, famed British clipper of the 70's, with which he made astounding records in the Australian wool trade (3,457 miles in eleven days); in Norfolk County, England...
Hero: a man clad in knee length corduroy "britches," long stockings, shoes and a wool shirt, equipped with pocket for carrying field notes...
...Wool Growers and Stockmen's Association of South Dakota recently hired two fliers to eliminate coyotes from their sheep-grazing lands. In one day's hunting Charles Orlup and Earl Wilson shot down...
...realm to be so nonchalant, so easily and intelligently apprehensive of both modernity and Eternal Rome? Is not Afghanistan the exotic and backward land of castor oil beans, asafoetida plants, and "fat-tailed sheep"?* Is it possible that a country without railways, a people whose chief exports are the wool and skins of "fat-tailed sheep" can have achieved sophistication...