Word: basses
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...eyes of any one who wanders by the banks of Lake Waban cannot fail to be attracted by the towers of Wellesley College. Mine were, when, after a rather unsuccessful afternoon's sport in the pretty pond, - whose waters were stocked with black bass at about the same time that its shores were stocked with pretty girls - I walked along its wooded banks...
...thinking partly of my ill-luck with the bass, - a fish which is, as every sportsman knows, as "uncertain, coy, and hard to please" as woman is, or is said to be, - and partly of the college whose towers rose above the trees before me. I was casting a pretty mystery about its sweet girl graduates, and wondering whether their ways of life and methods of thought were like ours, and whether - still more important - they were good-looking...
...Harvard boy." I confessed to this accusation; but as I never carry an obtrusive crimson handkerchief, and do not dislocate my elbows in walking, I don't see how she knew. "Been a-fishin'?" was her next remark. I said I had, and, to make conversation, produced my bass. She examined them critically, and announced that though "mighty mean little ones, they were reel bass, - acanthopterygious fish, of the genus perca, so called from their dark color...
...especially encouraging, considering the storm of Tuesday. The Club was assisted by Mr. Albert Van Raalte, violin soloist, and Mr. N. M. Brigham, tenor; also a quartette from the Glee Club, consisting of Mr. N. M. Brigham, first tenor; Mr. M. H. Morgan, second tenor; Mr. J. Dorr, first bass; Mr. F. H. Brackett, second bass...