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...catching fire like stubble. From Thames to Tiber is heard a great clatter of arms and of hammers in the shipyards. The sea is at one stroke covered with white poppies, the night is plastered all over with Greek letters and algebraic signs. There's dark America yonder like a whale bubbling out of the Ocean! Hark! Howling Asia feels a new god leaping in her womb...
...motorcycle policeman of Westchester County, N. Y. was surprised last week to behold an elderly gentleman kneeling in a path through some woods near Scarsdale peering skywards through binoculars. The gentleman explained that he was P. L. Hudson of Brooklyn, ornithologist; that that bird up yonder was an arctic owl in full winter plumage; that winter would come soon...
...acting under orders from the Governor. We're ready to stay here in this field 90 days if necessary. Sergeant, take six men and close down these five wells of the Champlin Company over yonder. Lieutenant, take a squad and shut in those Sinclair wells...
...HAMLET HOOVER?Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel...
These are tales of the Potato Face Blind Man, who likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers...