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...five proceeded directly to the main clerical office of the hotel, the Texans swaggering. The lad from Sweetwater faced the affrighted clerks with a revolver in one hand and a sawed-off a shotgun in the other...
Evans may well have marked this Carter wistfully, a lad whose 19 sum- mers nearly matched Evans' age (18) when he won his first Western Amateur title in 1909. And Mrs. Carter, trudging faithfully in the galleries, may well have felt her maternal bosom rapturously expand. Her slight son, unruffled by high winds, undismayed by sodden turf, continued ticking off pars, eliminated Rolfe, then Fred Lamprecht (intercollegiate champion). In the final, the Cummings-conqucring Martin had Carter in hand for 18 holes, no more. Three down as he munched his lunch, Carter recovered with a rush, won the title...
...lad, he had taken a great interest in the ailments of animals, which eventually led to interest in human ailments. At the age of 20 he left the farm, began to travel, peddling pills of his own manufacture as he went. Sales grew fast as his fame spread to the four corners of the earth...
...rendezvous was Poland Springs, Me., the gathering the 17th annual meeting of the conference of Governors. There was, for the first time in 17 meetings, a woman member-Governess Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming. There was also the son of Mrs. Ross, a lad of 10, of whom Governor Brewster of Maine remarked to the conclave assembled at breakfast: "I was anxious to see that he presented the best possible appearance here. I wanted his clothes brushed and his hands and face clean. When I told him that he should look his best he remarked: 'My mother...
Country mice, people have declared, are fatter than city mice-the old oaken bucket is a better vessel than the iron water pipe-the rugged farmer's lad, how he bulges beside the spindling sallowling from the city...