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Teacher: "Class in Geography, stand up. What is a strait?" Small boy (next to the foot): "A strait beats two pairs, three of a kind, and generally takes the pot-unless some fellow happens to have a cold deck slipped up his coat sleeve." Teacher: "Let us pray...
...steam launch has been entirely refitted during the winter, the repairs, especially to the machinery, having been extensive and complete. The forward deck has been cut out to extend the seating capacity of the boat, and much of the woodwork renewed. It is not thought the launch will be put into the water until after the spring recess...
...hail you. You are on deck, brace up, immense...
...youthful genius. And verily, to the young man's questions she returneth answers which are as naught, and the young man runneth through his stock of conversation and no one will come to help him; and lo, to a saying of the young man that the garlands that deck the feast are of exceeding beauty, she respondeth that without the snow is falling, and of a verity it was falling, for the day was exceeding cold, and the young man wist not how it was. And behold, when the young man pauseth for breath doth she make a sound...
...colleges have boat-clubs of their own. The boat-clubs of most of the colleges own barges, - great hulks painted with the colors of the colleges to which they belong. The barges each contain a large club-room and a number of dressing-rooms, and, above, there is a deck from which to watch the finish of the races. They are moored in line along Christ-church Meadows, from near the mouth of the Cherwell almost up to Folly Bridge, and a very picturesque sight they are. The 'Varsity of course has its barge, besides, larger and more gorgeous than...