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Boxer was a sly fellow. He had always managed to get ahead of me thus far. I was bound to pay him up sometime for the many jokes he had had at my expense. One day I heard him say he was going cod-fishing next morning at three o'clock, off Mackerel Point. Now was my chance. I'd set out at two, get on the ground first, and catch all the fish before he was up. Then how I would grin at him when he came along an hour afterward! With what coolness I would hold...
...Meeting), the winner of the first bout is obliged to spar with a man who is fresh and vigorous, which fact gives the latter a great superiority over the former. We suggest to the Association that, in a case like this, the final bout be postponed until the last day of the meeting, and be decided when both men are unwearied by participation in any previous sparring...
...such a condition that the salaries of many of our instructors are very meagre; and yet a man with little experience finds employment here at a salary amounting in all to $1,500 or $1,800; and that, too, by spending not more than four or five hours a day in the Yard, contrary to the rules under the head of INFORMATION FOR JANITORS...
When the invitation came from Aunt Meeker, Tootsy, overwhelmed with joy, burst into tears and exclaimed, "How kind of dear auntie!" So, packing her little wardrobe, and slipping in a few pumpkins for Miss Meeker, she set out on her journey one cold day in December. At Boston she was met by her aunt and a Cambridge horse-car, and conveyed to her new home...
CHAPTER VI.The next day the gentlemanly clerk in Hubbard's noticed a youth and a maiden standing on the sidewalk in front of his store. The haggard expression of the youth, his wild and unkempt locks, betokened a mind ill at ease. He was brandishing a postal card in his hand. It said: "You are requested to come to the Dean's office between 3 and 5 P.M." Signed...