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with bear milk for his Sunday dinners. The same riverman who told about the buzzards bringing the infant also vowed that Aunt Screechy mixed his pap from rattlesnake eggs. She was accused of it, and she denied it.
"They were plain, honest, tasty eel eggs," Aunt Screechy declared.
A spoo,n carved from a buffalo's hoof, with an eagle's leg for a handle was the first trick fixed by Uncle Roarious for the dewy infant. Davy's rattle was a plugged bufialo horn primed with grapeshot. On nights of howling wind, Davy was lashed to the top of a tall sycamore, and when the wind would swing him handsome and high he could be heard cooing for a mile.
Such tender care did wonders for the future king of the wild frontier.
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San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 held its annual ,49er at Del Mar on the night of May h and the usual rousing high time was reported by one and all. There was a goodly crowd of 165 lumber and material merchants in attendance but, due to the nature of the annual party, photos rn,ere taboo and details of the entertainment are as scanty as the costume on a burlesqueen.