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...jest questhin the boss when he comes 'long. But gosh! look at that picter of a hoss up there: he's a fine-looking critter, ain't he? Speaking of hosses, you know that old un I had last year: he was a good puller, but unsound from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute...
Showed each one thought his own class had the boss...
FOOTBALL. - Interesting game in which eleven men try to kick the shins off eleven other men; failing in this, necks, ribs, and limbs are broken with impunity. The "boss" game takes place every Thanksgiving Day between eleven tramps from Yale and an equal number from Princeton. Twenty-two men retire from the conflict covered with wounds and glory. Much lying done as to why and how this match is lost and won. See Yale, Princeton, &c. - Columbiad...
...Courant says, "When the time comes, Yale will start an 'eleven' boom harder to tackle and get on to than the 'boss fifteen.'" The only difficulty with that "eleven" boom will be that, like Dundreary's bird, it will have to "fl-flock all alone by itself in a c-corner...
...flunk in college. You 're the boss snide - a tart piece on a tare...