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...people admit that a man is tres-bete...
...morning, I remembered, as I dressed myself, my father's advice; so I took the morning car into Boston, cutting my Latin. I remembered that my father said, "Go to the best lawyer," so I walked around in contemplation of the office, and at last went to the man who has the best room in Sears Block. That was the handsomest building, by long odds, and, thought I, the men who can afford it ought to be the best...
...When man clothed himself in skins...
...home and reached third himself. At this point the Yale Captain interposed. He objected to Fessenden getting three bases on a ball that went outside the ropes and was lost. Our Captain said that as no agreement had been made about that part of the field, his man was entitled to as many bases as he could get. The Yale men refused to play the game out, and after a quarter of an hour's parley our Captain agreed, for the sake of continuing the game, to send Fessenden back to second, and count one run only. Play was then...
...such an oppressive afternoon, I betake myself to my lounge and try to get a nap. I am having the most delicious doze you can imagine, dreaming, yet conscious that I am dreaming, when, after delivering a kick at the door that nearly breaks it in, the noisiest man in the class enters, slams the door, seizes me by the shoulder, and wants me to go to walk. I give a grunt which I think ought to be a sufficient hint that he is not wanted; but, entirely unabashed, he gives me a lecture on the subject of exercise, saying...