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...support seems to maintain its composure and sobriety. You can surely count upon it. Vain hope! These two are but confederates in crime. For suddenly this, too, begins to rotate. You struggle for a moment to keep both feet moving in opposite directions, become demoralized, lose your head and your foothold, and plunge into the water, while your torturers indulge in a mighty flop of intense delight...
...wild fancies, and turning, he sees his girl alternately lifting up and putting down her feet like a miniature quartzmill, while the log on which she is trying to stand performs a series of swift revolutions. Diggles madly rushes to her assistance; will he be too late? Her head swims, her brain reels. Why did she trust him? Alas! why did she trust him? Faster and faster turns the log; faster and faster twinkle the maiden's feet. A slide, a splash, a faintly gurgled "Diggles!" and the dark waters close over her bosom forever...
...Above my head the swallows skim...
Wagging your head, censorious...
...yearly maintenance of an Archaeological School at Athens. Other colleges, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell in particular, will be invited to subscribe to the fund, which will it is expected, reach twenty-five thousand dollars. The plan is then to secure a house in Athens, which shall be the head-quarters of American students who may go to Greece for archaeological work. Professors from the various colleges subscribing to the fund will have the direct supervision of the school. They will take turns in the work, going out successively and remaining at Athens each for about two years. Of course they...