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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...
...dreamed that I was fishing quietly, when suddenly I heard a commotion behind me in the boat. I turned around, and there, to my amazement, beheld a twenty-pound cod, that I had just caught, erect upon its tail, glaring at me with intense rage and indignation. Abashed and disconcerted by the menacing and determined expression of the fish, I was still more startled to observe that its body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept...
...stop the cursed thing? I could hear Boxer stirring. There was a movement downstairs. Clang! whirr! clang! I rushed frantically to the window, tore up the sash, and hurled the infernal machine out into the air. Clang! jang! whirr! it mocked at me, as it whirled off. I heard a half-suppressed chuckle behind me. I turned round savagely, the perspiration pouring my face. There, at the door, all dressed and ready equipped for fishing, his hand over his mouth to smother his laughter, was - that confounded Boxer...
...have heard Special Students complain of the delay which they experience in getting their marks. While we admit that there are some of this class of students to whom their standing cannot be of the slightest interest, there are others who are deeply interested in their work, and who show that interest by constant application. It seems to us that instructors should find no difficulty in discovering who the latter are, and should take especial care to give them their marks at the time when they give them to regular students...
Persimmons heard no more. He fell down in a swoon. He was a Freshman, and was not used...