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2d SENIOR (after meditation). "By Jove, I've forgotten that again! I'll put it down and ask my tutor."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

Leaving the bright-roofed city of Quebec, the steamboat takes us down the St. Lawrence to Tadousac, one of the oldest French settlements in Canada. Here we transfer our provisions and rods to the smaller boat which plies between the mouth of the Saguenay and Ha-Ha Bay, - a charming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALMON FISHING. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

Now we have come to the scene of our sport. The lines and hooks must be small, but of the very best quality. The salmon, a most active fish, as soon as it is caught by the hook, endeavors; naturally, in every way to get loose, jumping far out of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALMON FISHING. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

After a half-hour past the time appointed for the beginning of the game, the McGill men, dressed in the English foot-ball suit, straggled into the field, and, after a few minutes, were followed by a shabby-looking set of men, who turned out to be the Harvard Ten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOOT-BALL MATCH. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

For the first half-hour the Harvard men had the wind in their favor. To the agreeable surprise of most of us, the Canadians did not kick the ball over the cross-bar in the first five minutes, and they seemed indeed hardly able to hold their own. The first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOOT-BALL MATCH. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »