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January 16, 2008

Have read [Francis Marion Crawford’s] Mr. Isaacs this week and like it. It’s quite refreshing after the Ann Elizas, Henry James and Howells etc.—the tiger hunt is very good.

—Clover Adams to her father, January 14, 1883

 

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.