Show I Lo the Noble Horse I The year 1947 ended with a new sea serpent story which you undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un- un read about I mention it because I myself saw a strange and terrifying beast as I walked to work one late December morning and I believe the two tales worthy of repe repe- As to the sea serpent The Associated Associated Associated Asso Asso- Press carried a signed story by the master of the steamship Santa Clara J. J Fordan in which he described the monster sighted in the Atlantic miles due east of Cape Lookout He named the first and third mates and the navigation officer officer officer as witnesses According to their testimony the monsters monster's snake-like snake head was about two and one-half one feet long there was about 35 feet of cylindrical body some three feet in diameter visible The water about the beast was stained red and the animal was thrashing around in apparent agony causing the skipper to believe that the ship had cut it in two The beasts beast's skin was brown slick and smooth there were no protuberances ances fins or hair on the head neck or visible parts of the body That's the skippers skipper's story Mine l is equally terrifying I 1 actually saw in the early morning morning morning morn morn- ing moving down New Hampshire Hampshire Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire avenue a huge creature whose body like the skippers skipper's sea serpent was without fins or protuberances but unlike it was covered with hair The head was more than two feet long the shaped barrel-shaped body was supported supported sup sup- ported on four long legs which made the creature higher when it threw up its head much higher than a man Its feet were not large compared t to the great powerful body and they terminated in a great claw or nail-like nail substance which would give the creature terrible weapons of offense or defense The teeth were large and blunt and the mouth though not large plainly could inflict inflict inflict in in- damaging wounds Human beings looked puny beside this creature which appeared as out of place on a Washington city street as a hippopotamus or an elephant Strangely enough it did not cause any great commotion except among the younger people who stared in wonder obviously never having seen anything like it except m in picture picture picture pic pic- ture books It did pose considerable problems for motorized traffic Horns honked drivers jittered uttered seat back-seat orders thundered Finally the monster turned off the street and went up an alley That was a great relief to me I knew what it was I had even ridden one when I was in the artillery and later but it was a shock to see a areal areal areal real live in a ai ar i r city street v Glory Jest JestAnd JestAnd JestAnd And Riddles I submit the following as an IQ test to my readers The answers will not be found on the following page Can you tell a cormorant from a awater awater awater water turkey when they are so far faraway faraway faraway away they look no bigger than a fly in custard pie Did you ever see a loon trying to walk Did you know that between Christmas and New Years Year's Day roosters crow cows moo horses whinny in the night when otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise they would be asleep Do you know they DONT DON'T Can you tell by the feel fecI on the line whether you have a catfish or a lazy trout on your hook Do you know where to scrape the deepest hole in the ground when you have to roll up in your blanket and sleep al fresco Would you rather spend a night ina in ina a storm rain-storm in m a pup tent if you were camped in a pine forest or crawl under the lowest branches on a hundred years of pine needles rolled up in a shelter shelter- half hall Could you plow the corners better with an old-fashioned old plow or a new-fashioned new tractor tractor trac tor If a man talks low German does that mean he is talking a dialect dialect dialect dia dia- lect Do the educated people in England England Eng Eng- land speak a language which would be more understandable to Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare than our hill billies lingo Anyone answering all of these questions correctly will receive a afree afree afree free trip to the moon on the third rocket ship |