The Giant Ant Eater of Venezuela
The giant anteater stands about two and a half feet tall with a seven foot body tail length. It has a small head and a long snout ending in a whip like tongue. In edentate form it shares traits with armor-like skin and a bushy tail. In the wilds of tropical America it feeds on termites, using sharp claws to tear nests and a slender tongue to eat inmates from crevices. Its gait appears awkward as its fore claws are trained to bear weight by walking on the outer wrist.
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Venezuela
Transvaal
South America
Tropical America
He Loved Animale and His Kindness to Animals
An old friend recalls Plackmore the novelist as compassionate to animals and birds. Dogs loved him, pigeons followed him, and a blackbird family used his garden. He built a wooden ladder over a water well to help young birds escape, then watched them repay him with strawberries.
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Plackmore
Christowell
Mr. Ruskin
Lorna
Daniel
Beecher Reveals Secret Marriage in Railway Car
Henry Ward Beecher produced a small envelope from his watch pocket during a lecturing tour ride. He smiled after opening it and told Major Pond that he had recently married a railroad magnate who gave him the envelope as he left, which he had slipped into his pocket.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Major Pond
Envelope Reveals Five Thousand Dollars Hidden
A major discovers an envelope containing five $1,000 bills, totaling five thousand dollars, revealing a hidden cache. The find appears unexpected and prompts questions about ownership and origin of the money.
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Ned
Tasia
A Test Yet Told By An Egg Spin
The tale recalls a picnic misadventure with raw and boiled eggs. A visitor uses finger spin to tell boiled from raw, then cautions against overfine speech and forgetting one’s mother tongue as echoed by Wilson in 1553.
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St. Nicholas
Wilson
Tiger Whiskers Poison in Curry Tales
A London Globe note recalls a famous Indian hunter recounting that tiger whiskers must be guarded after skinning. Locals supposedly cut and grind whiskers into curry to poison disliked enemies, with the fine bristles causing irritation and sometimes serious effects.
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India
London Globe
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the Giant Ant Eater
Animale
Beecher
Inkhorn
WHATLEY @& WARD
Dothan
Boston
Atlantic Coast Line
Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias
New York
W. J. Craig
T. C. White
Fossegor
Wilmington N.C
M. Cherry
Dothan, Ala
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