Modern Art Story: GOLD BUG, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (q. v.), first published in the Philadelphia Dollar Magazine in 1843 and reprinted in a volume of Poe's tales in 1845. The story, one of a group that Poe called "tales of ratiocination," is regarded as a prototype of the modern art story detective story.
Regulus, however, advised the continuance of the war and recommended the Romans not to exchange prisoners. Thereupon he declined to listen to the entreaties of his family or of the Senate and persisted in his intention to return to Carthage. It is related that he was put to death with great cruelty and that Hamilcar and Boscar, two noble Carthaginian prisoners, were given up to the family of Regulus, who took revenge on them in a similar manner. Neither the story of the embassy nor of the revenge is related by Polybius, and Ihne, the German historian, inclines to the modern art story view that the story was invented to excuse the cruelty of the family of Regulus to their prisoners. Niebuhr declares the story a forgery and believes that Regulus died a natural death. Horace 'Odes' III, 5, repeats eloquently the story as current at the .time.
I once did a picture for a story that I had suggested on an animal trainer whose specialty was dogs. I shot pictures of his well-trained dogs diving through the air, landing in the water, and retrieving a tame, but very cocky wild duck that was wearing a khaki protective sweater. Afterwards, driving through traffic, it occurred to me that I had done the wrong story. I turned around and reshot the story from the point of view of the duck. The duck's name was Melvin and the story turned out to be the story of Melvin, the Dog-Training Duck.
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