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  • Burl's theory has aroused skepticism among his colleagues, who doubt any real connection between the 4,500-year-old Stonehenge and older Breton megaliths.

    The French Built Stonehenge? 1997

  • Burl's theory is the most recent attempt to attribute foreign origins to Stonehenge.

    The French Built Stonehenge? 1997

  • Most damaging to Burl's theory is that there are no Breton sites architecturally comparable to Stonehenge.

    The French Built Stonehenge? 1997

  • At length, as if this amusement had suggested it to his mind, the boy struck up a cadence from one of Burl's songs, singing in a clear, piping voice:

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • "An 'dat's de way," to finish Burl's own story in his own words,

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • The little man looked as if he knew nothing at all about the matter, and was quite willing to take Burl's word for it and let the noise in question pass either for the bellowing of a buffalo bull-calf or for the mewing of a wild-cat kitten, he cared not a whistle which.

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • And when the two giants, still locked together in the death hug, had rolled to the foot of the hill, and he had seen his darling Burl's bare, yellow soles, with a wide-wheeling fling, go vanishing over the river-bank, then had the poor little fellow given up all as lost and cried as if his heart would break.

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • The particular object which had caught Burl's eye was a mammoth sycamore-tree which, with two huge white arms outstretched, as if to embrace a graceful beech directly in front of it, overhung the mouth of

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • Here, in the due course of nature, a playful little pioneer made his appearance, whom they bundled up in red flannel and christened Bushrod, and called Bushie -- Burl's household idol.

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • Having, through Burl's influence, gained his mother's permission to accompany them, Bushie, likewise in honor of the occasion, had put on a clean homespun cotton shirt and a pair of buckskin moccasins, which, with the eagle feathers in his coon-skin cap and his white stone pipe worn tomahawk-wise in his girdle, lent him quite a holiday appearance.

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

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