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EVERY one knows that the average tennis man can no more play tennis without a small boy or two to chase balls than - well - than the Football Team can play a game without posing, every five minutes, with hands on knees, for their photograph. Now, the man of business capacity and of a speculative turn of mind, who will get up a corner in small boys, will make a sufficient fortune to enable him to go to the first night of the Greek play at present prices. The corner could be very easily arranged. Get all the tennis nets...
...getting late," remarked the chairman, blushing like a school-boy at the complimentary remarks of the editor, "we cannot hope to hear from all our honored guests; but before we break up I desire to call upon Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n for the poem which he has kindly prepared for the occasion. It will be published in the next Harper's, with thirty-five pre-Raffaelite illustrations, many of them portraits of - of ourselves...
Suddenly the awful truth dawned upon her. He was a scape-grace, a bad boy (none but wicked boys get postals from the Dean). Aunt Meeker had told her of such things before, - but her own dear Persimmons! But her old love overcame all other considerations, and she exclaimed, "O Persimmons, dear...
...Fast, my boy. I will waft you into the arms of Athena. Look in this glass of Shampagnie water; there you will perceive the image of her whose name is Sozodont, for she is many; she will soothe your aching brow...
...might distinguish, too, the voice of Mr. F-lds attempting to tell a little anecdote : "When I was in London, I breakfasted with Charles Dickens, and he said, 'Jim, my boy...