And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.

December is weather returning. Xmas celebrating. Undecember, the thirteenth month, is Year's ending. Zero days remaining.

Laying out the zoo on horseback, he went about making plans to combine his scrubby mesas and canyons with moats, and thereby eliminate caging many large animals—a revolutionary advance in American zoo design.

After the death of his father he settled in Chicago and entered upon the practice of law, soon having a large clientage