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The Bargain
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Antigonish Review
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January 1, 2008
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- Shoenut, Meredith L
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Copyright informationCopyright St. Francis Xavier University Winter 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In the bargain basement
Maze of superfluous skins
The entrails of Hudson's Bay Company
I followed you, scowling
While you - oblivious
Rummaged through ridiculously
Reduced coats and toques
From the year before,
With one pant leg caught
In your sock. Like the lovable
Hobo - a clown with
Wide hair statically charged
And painted cheeks unblended
You hunted for the best
Deals for me, though I did not care
For your tastes then. I could never
Understand why you took your milk
Powdered, your coffee black, why you
Listened to the CBC before bed,
And dragged me around the WAG
For the Group of Seven, Inuit carvings,
And local postmodern art. Thawing
On the slushy Jefferson Avenue bus, I hoped
I would ...
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Kathryn Holzka For the Journal;
169 words
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
February 20, 2008 ;
241 words
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Chicago Sun-Times;
September 19, 2004 ;
KATHY CANO-MURILLO;
342 words
......with brown velvet ribbon down the pant leg. It's a stunning idea. Now I want...evenly all the way to the bottom of the pant leg. Quickly wipe away any excess glue from the edges. At the end of the pant leg, add a drop of glue to the inner side...
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Only in Canada.(British Columbia policeman rescues baby ducks, after being...
The New American;
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LEE, ROBERT W.;
122 words
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Frogg Toggs.(Response)(Letter to the Editor)
Rider;
September 1, 2003 ;
Jim;
51 words
......2003), as he said they are fine behind a windshield except on a Harley-Davidson. The reason being that just one touch of the pant leg to the exhaust pipe and you have an instant hole. Trust me, I know, as I have pants with holes to prove it. Jim Via E-Mail
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ASK VIN.(Sports)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
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59 words
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Slain Suffolk tattoo artist left his mark on friends.
Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA);
October 3, 2006 ;
440 words
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Shooting fit.(News)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);
July 26, 1998 ;
37 words
...A sheriff shot himself in the foot - literally. Sheriff Bruce Seal set off his pocket pistol as he reached in for his car keys. The bullet went down my pant leg into my foot, said Seal, from a Tennessee hospital. No surgery was needed.
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Prairie Dogs Might Have Dug Up Bone
Albuquerque Journal;
May 30, 2003 ;
Kathryn Holzka For the Journal;
313 words
......hands when a cleaning crew found part of a human leg bone in a pant leg concealed in brush at the Sierra Vista Cemetery in El Prado...that the bone belongs to somebody else and the name inside the pant leg is just a coincidence," Holfelder said. Emery Hawkins died...
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Metal burns holes in city's new firefighter gear: No one hurt, but union...
Chicago Sun-Times;
January 16, 2007 ;
Fran Spielman;
475 words
......metal fence. Sparks flew and a piece of red-hot metal hit the pant leg and damaged the outer shell. The thermal barrier and inner...molten metal, which is well over 1,000 degrees. It hit the pant leg and did cause some damage. But the garment performed as it...
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Newborn Ends Up in Pa. Woman's Pant Leg
AP Online;
February 16, 2007 ;
125 words
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Medic! Medic!: Army's training at Fort Carson grimly realistic.
Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado);
April 24, 2006 ;
787 words
......Dinsmore was writhing on the ground, red blood pouring down his pant leg and onto the concrete floor as three Army medic trainees wrestled...back, looking for the bleeding wound. They ripped open his pant leg and on his thigh found a plastic mold of a gaping wound - but...
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ShopPup's penchant for shoes triggers shopping spree
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;
February 28, 2004 ;
KRISTEN ANDRESEN; OF THE NEWS STAFF;
787 words
......standing in the middle of the bedroom, one foot on the floor, the other halfway in a pant leg, when ShopPup emerges from under the bed. In an instant, she has the pant leg in her mouth, tugging away, waiting for my foot to emerge so she can chew on my...
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Illinois Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pant Leg Band
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
March 31, 2007 ;
146 words
...ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- Erik P. Mehren of University Park, Ill., has developed an ornamental design for a pant leg band, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D516,779 on March 14, 2006. The...
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Kinky Friedman signs supporter Erin Henschel's pant leg at a Wichita...
KRT Photos;
November 10, 2005 ;
BARBARA DAVIDSON;
158 words
......KINKY KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY BARBARA DAVIDSON/DALLAS MORNING NEWS (November 16) Kinky Friedman signs supporter Erin Henschel's pant leg at a Wichita Falls, Texas rally, November 9, 2005. (lde) 2005 Document Name|US NEWS KINKY 3 DA...
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