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Man. Bites Dog
,It's news when a man bites a
dog but, when, postman Ike Bar-
ber, of Philadelphia, took a re-
taliatory nip at a yapping terrier
he was charged in court with
doing bodily harm to a thorough-
bred animal.
Now thousands of American
postmen •are trying new ways of
stopping dogs biting them. Last
year .no fewer than 5,880 post-
men were bitten by dogs. , Three
vi`ctirjns in every four had to see
a doctot- and over 600 postmen
had to spend• a day in bed.
Scientists are experimenting
with dog-repellent solutions with
which to impregnate, postmen's
trousers. In some districts post-
men are armed with water nis-
tols filled with a •mild Solution of
ammonia. Meter readeis are
fellow-sufferers and some are
,being armed with sweet dog bis-
cuits,$on ,the basis that a bribe
is better,than, a bite.
Yorkshire meter readers re-
cently asked fo special R,S.P.C.A.
lessons in the art of avoiding
bites.' In Switzerland third-party
insurance for dogs has 'become
compulsory. •
Only recently a dog shot a
man. It was proved that the dog
trod on the trigger as a South
African sportsman was lifting a
shotgun from his car, Fortunate-
ly the victim recovered.
On the other hand dogs have
a lot on the credit side. They
have proved so successful in
modern crime-fighting, last year,
for example, that they achieved
ninety arrests in the London
area alone.
HUTCH HUNCH
When the rabbit hutch of the
school principal in Aschaffen-
burg, Germany, was raided one
week-end recently, the irate
owner had an idea. On the Mon-
day he instructed the teachers
to set their classes to write an
essay entitled "My Sunday
Lunch." Two of the children
described the delicious rabbit
stew their mothers had prepar-
ed. Their fathers were arrested
the next morning.
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Circus Days.
hi ,E0gIand.
Few things, I think, are more
permanent than the amusements
that go to make up a country
fair, Changes, Of course, come
along in time, but they are OW/
end more in the nature.of
adaptations and improvements
than revolutions, i suppose the
most eternal feature of a a fair
is the Roundabout..
Once I had the fortune to be-
stride the mighty Eclipse him-
Self, in wooden effigy; and What
gave that ride its special touch
of romance was, that it was in
a small provincial town but a
few miles from the very place
where that peerless horse was
foaled. Only a day or two be-
fore I had walked over the now
'desolate spot on the edge of the
downs. Wheeled over by plover
and played upon by rabbits,
only some slight irregularities
of the turf that now covered the
site told where once a great
house stood.
The English public is faith-
ful in the main to horses, and
does not greatly care to ride a
bear or an ostrich. Pink pigs
with blue ribbons round their
necks, so popular in. France,
where the whole roundabout
will consist of placid pink pigs,
have never met in England,
though there are few more
pleasing sights than. M. le
Moire, M. le Notaire, and the
rest of the principal inhahliante
of a small French ,town, clad in
straw hats, long black frock-
coats, and yellow •boots well
turned up at the toes, gravely
circling round, each on the hack
of the pinkest and shiniest of
pigs. The great farmyard cock,
again, crested and open-beaked,
with wings outstretched and one
brawny, scaly leg, flung far be-
hind him, is not so usual as
In. France — which perhaps is
natural. It is the old English
instinct to bestride a horse and
not a griffin. . . .
Nothing that Dickens did in
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found attached to many cir-
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odd jobs that seem to be no-
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noon, it was 'Mrs.•Grudden who
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them off to water, helped every-
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without fuss or ostentation,
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steps and Mended costumes.
Next morning she was early in
the High Street, in bonnet and
shawl, with a capacious basket,
doing all the marketing for the
troupe,
When the afternoon perform-
once begen it was she who took
our money at the box-office,
and when the principal item
In the programme was reached
at last, to wit, the grand Inter-
national, Fantastic Bare-back
13alleta, and the band played
and in came the tall circus-
horse, with easy amble and gen-
tle inclination ringwards, there
on his pad, to our great delight,
stood Mrs. Grudden, erecet,
sylph-like. — From the Intro-
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"Seventy Years a Showman,"
by "Lord George Sanger.
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His Predictions
I
DIG THAT COOL POOL. CAT — "Swimmer," a two-month-old cat,
plunges into a popl for her mbrning conditioner, and dog-
paddles, if you please, the 40 feet across the tank with her
owner, 10-year-old Donna Fick. Swimmer wasn't exactly enthu-
siastic about her swimming lessons at first, but gradually got
accustomed to the water by riding a raft. Now the kitten leaps
off a diving board and pussy-foots it through, the water with
feline delight.
together. There were 1104 fur-
ther acrobatics,. no5umps, It felt
like hauling an anchor cable
with the hoofs letlirried, in the •
bottom, We Were unable to-
budge the dead weight on the
Other end of the line,.
The afternoon waned slowly,
and a haze built up inshore, A.
slight breeze puffed into a wind
sea, and the "Wizzard!" rocked
rhythmically as the waves passed
benouth her keel, Despite our
fear of pulling the harpoon dart
loose, we threw our bodies IMP
this weird tug-of-war, Yanking
away at the line with every
ounce of strength we possessed,.
fruitlessly. ""Get him or break
it!" growled. Clyde, "Lash the,
line to the railing and we'll let
the sea make the decision."
We obeyed the Skipper's or-
der. As the "Wizard." banked in-
to the trough of A . swell, . we
tightened the line. She came
taut momentarily, then some- .
thing gave, Hal and I retrieved •
three hundred ponnds of broad-
bill swordfish with sand grains.
imbedded in the bone structure
cf its cartiiaginetts snout. That
swordfish rammed .itself into the
bottom before dying! In its last
effort, unable to reach the boat,
it smashed into the only solid ob-
ject left available. If it had been
us; the sword'would have punc-
tured the • hull like ,we were
planked with balsa wood,
MERRY MENAGERIE
1Probably It's just his founds.,
Lion settlIngt"
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EXP ORT
shoulders, jolting me half out of
the chair. My feet were clamped
on the 'footboards. I weigh one
hundred and: ' seventy , pounds,
but I felt like a pigmy caught
in the grasp 'of a giant. Line
smoked from • the reel, and Hal
dumped a...pail of seawater over
the mechanism go prevent it
from freezing. I was soaked, but
I never, felt the wetness. Spots
were dancing in front of my
eyes. My ' arms felt as though
they were tearing from their
sockets. For over an hour, I en-
'dured a session of physical tor-
ture.
The broadbill came close
alongside. Far from being dead
or weary, the big fish merely
wanted a glimpse of its tormen-
ters. It spotted the shadow of
our hull, rolled restlessly, and
then attacked! There was no
doubt of the action. Deliberately
arching upward, that broadbill
attempted to drive its' sword
into the boat's bottom.
Skipper Oakley slammed the
throttle open. The "Wizard"
squatted aft, then shot forward
like a cannonball. I was yanked
out of my seat again. Only my
feet, braced stiffly, saved me,
Dimly,. I heard a harsh, grating
sound as the swordfish grazed
our transom. I saw the fish be-
come entangled in a slack loop
of my twenty-four thread line.
Hal Ryder bellowed something
incomprehensible, and raced to-
wards the bow. He returned car-
rying the long handled harpoon.
"It's over I" he yelled. "The linen
will pop! I can stick that fish
now if you say the Word!"
I knew all hope of landing
the broadbill on rod-and-reel.
Was gone. Miserably; I nodded
my consent. Clyde backed down
on the fish, Laying dormant on
the surface. Just as the broad-
bill slashed violently, breaking
My line, Hal drove the harpoon
dart into its head.
The swordfish Went corn-
pietely Mad! The giant rose out
of the water, blood streaming
frOiri its head, and attempted a
second attack. Hal flippedthe
Manila keg rig overboard as
Clyde gunned the charterboat
out of harm's way, The broadbill
made two huge eircieS, tailwallt-
ing, head and SiVerd pointing
at the sky, body exposed to its
gill plates towitt three hitri-
dred feet of Manila line plus -the
harpoon keg slowed that fish
ecirisidetably but never stopped'
it. Finally, It deve. The ocean
became still, the keg bobbing
quietly on the surface.. A half
hour passed uneventfully:;
haVe to 016110 Picking' UP the
warp," said Clyde.
Hal and I grabbed the rope
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The hot, mid-summer sun
'burned down on a still, calm
ocean. I was standing on the
flying bridge of the charter
boat, "Wizard", thirty miles, south
of Shinnecock Inlet, Long Is-
land. Long, uneventful hours
gazing into the glare had ,rnade
my eyes red-rimmed and `tired.
The constant throb of the boat's
engine gave me the beginnings of- -
a headache. Quite frankly, I wai
weary and bored.
"Swordfishing isn't all action,"
commented Skipper Clyde Oak-
ley. He gestured astern towards
our two outrigger baits, bounc-
ing and skittering 'erratically out-
side the boat'S wake. "Some-
' times you'll wait till a sword-
fish spots the squid. They come,
flashing out of nowhere, hitting
blind," he said. "Sometimes it's
all waiting, and no fish." '
"This' time it's fish!" yelled
Hal Ryder. "Look ahead off the.
starboard bow. Those gulls are
working over something big."
The birds were mere black
dots on the horizon. As Clyde
opened the throttle wide, racing
towards the spot, I marveled at
Ryder's farsightedness, the sea-
man's eye that caught a speck of
motion in a vast emptiness.„ As
we came, closer, I was able to
distinguish :the fluttering, Wide-
winged shapes of gannets, the
smaller, fork-tailed terns, even
a bevy of Mother Carey's Chick-
ens, those tiny petrels that live
on the open sea. Underneath the
aerial bedlam, churning the
water to a silver sheet, a school
of mackerel raced and twisted in
a desperate effort to escape in-
stant death in the form of a
swordfish.
"That fish went down but he'll
be feeding in a minute," whis-
pered Clyde. "When he hits,
leave the reel on free spool and
let him take line. Don't strike
till he stops and swallows the
squid."
During the excitement, Hal
Ryder had snapped both lines'
from the outrigger pins, retriev-
ing one bait and placing it in the
portable ice. box, ready for in-
stant use. I went down thelad-
der into the cockpit, slid into
the big fighting chair, and
buckled myself into a shoulder
harness. Hal slipped the remain-
ing rod into the gimbal socket
on the chair. ",Don't clamp down
when he strikes," he warned.
"That fish will carry the squid
in his mouth till he decides it's
good to eat. We want the hook
deep in his gut."
My hands were wet with pers-
piration. A hard knot cramped
my 'stomach while the beat of my
heart felt like a sledge pound-
ing through my veins. I wanted
to yelp in ekciteinent, swear,
beg, even pray to force the ac-
tion writes Chuck. Meyer in the
Police Gazette, This was the
best chance I'd had at a rod-and-
reel broadbill in ten years of
trolling, the blue water of the
Atlantic. Sure; I'd baited et
least fifty swordfish. I'd known
innumerable thrills spotting fish.
Like 'most broadbill, they weren't
interested. You could drag fif-
teen baits across their snouts
and all the 'swordfish would do
is turn aWay. But maybe this
monster would react differently.
After all, the fish was feeding.
"Hit
please."
, seit,!" I muttered. "Hit it,
EXtendirig barely four or five
inches above the water, I spotted
the ,two black Ana' tipping a few
hundred feet astern. The caudal
twitched once twice, the dot-
, sal fin Steed stiff and erect While
the fish finned higher. With its
black bill suddenly clear, thrash-
ing doWn aril sideways, the
swordfish eared like a flaked
thunderbolt. Wicked teiriPered,
Vidotialy slashing the sea, the
broadbill eriguifed My Squid!
Line whistled Of the reel, The
-11Sh stopped Moreentakily, then
fan again: "Strikel ir bellowed
Ilal RYcler.
elieked the free spool lever'
into gear, The linen line tighten,. ,
ed on the reel Spool. Something
ainasheri through my arms and
Come
And now or youthful
prodigy appea„L. Edmund Hal-
ley, son of a wealthy soap-
manufacturer, sends a first
paper to the Royal Society at
the age of nineteen years.
This was in the year 1675.
The young astronomer was
elected a fellow of the Royal
Society at the age of twenty-
two. . , .
No doubt Halley's scientific
contemporaries regarded his
prediction of the future transit
of Venus as a- highly interest-
ing exhibition of astronomical
knowledge, but as falling well
within the province of one who
had devoted much time to cal-
culation of planetary orbits.
But the calculation of the or-
bit of a comet, coupled with
the prediction that this visitor
would return forty-three years
later — in 1758 — was some-
thing of a quite' different order,
Of course, the comet did ul-
timately return, as the daring
astronomer predicted, and was
thus proved to be a' member of
the planetary, family — in fu-
ture very properly to bear Hal-
ley's name. But something
promised for the year 1758 was
hardly likely to hush the voice
of skepticism of the year 1715.
In any event, the feat of es-
tablishing a comet as a member
of the sun's family is justly ac-
counted one of the most spec-
tacular accomplishments in the
history of astronomy. It is diffi-
cult from this distance to real-
ize adequately what such a
pronouncement what such a
generation that heard it.
It must be understood that
from the earliest times comets
had been regarded, not as nat-
ural celestial bodies, but as
supernatural phenomena. This
was not merely popular and
theological doctrine, but it was
an estimate that only the most
rationalistic o f astronomers
thought of challenging. . . .
The forward-looking quality
of Halley's mind was shown, not
only in his attitude toward the
Newtonian hypothesis, but in
his receptiveness to new ideas
in general. Naturally he had the
keenest interest in the new and
improved astronomical instru-
ments for which the epoch is
distinguished. — From "The
Great Astronomers," by Henry
Smith Williams.
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