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...turned out, Old Yeller did great things for the isolated little family. He ran down rabbits and treed squirrels for the table. He helped keep coons out of the corn patch, and when a raging she-bear made for little brother, Old Yeller pitched into her with yelp and fang and held her at bay until the boy was rescued. He saved Travis from a herd of killer hogs, proved again and again that when the chips are down a dog's character can't be gauged by his conformation...
After admiring the garden, the President accepted a dozen long-stemmed roses for Mamie, which he turned over to a Secret Service man. When the man left to put the flowers in the car, an indignant garden clubber let out a yelp. "Where's he going with our flowers?" she demanded...
...movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life, she coldly countered by charging in print, naming all names, that the country's No. 1 preacher was a bigger libertine than she and a hypocrite...
...Thinking, perhaps, that he wasn't fully understood, he drew a little analogy: "Personally, I like bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs," he said. "The bird dogs like to get out and hunt for their food, but the kennel dogs just sit on their haunches and yelp...
...Chicago, the U.S. attorney let out a yelp that the Her aid-American had been harboring a fugitive, talked about sending someone to jail. But in Washington, Attorney General McGranery was so glad to get Knetzer back in custody again that he shut him up. Said McGranery: "I am thankful [for the newspaper's] great enterprise...