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Across the downs of Surrey two terrified foxes streaked. Behind one of them the blue-blooded pack of the aristocratic Surrey Union Hunt bayed in melodious chorus. The other fox was chased by what appeared to be a purely self-appointed troop of yelping mongrels...
Suddenly the two foxes began to interweave their trails. The mongrel and aristocratic canine pursuers became hopelessly entangled and started fighting among themselves. Scandalized, the Surrey Union Huntsmen rode up and tried to disperse the mongrel pack by a drastic and ungentle plying of whips Their morning had gone simply blotto.* Their tempers were up, and mongrel hides offered a safe issuance for spleen. It did not occur to them that the whelps might belong to anybody...
...they whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy with the kings, queens and knaves of a pack of cards. In the end all the royal cards are burnt, and this denouement seemed commonplace enough to most of the stolid Londoners. Here and there, however, there was one who remembered that...
...thread brushed his chest- and someone was wrapping him in a blanket, thumping him on the back, telling him he had made it, had beaten Loucks by a yard after six miles. Third-100 yards behind-struggled Arthur Hillman of Maine, and behind him the gasping, wavering, dogged pack...
Coach Knute Rockne, Merlin of football, shuffled his big squad like a pack of cards, sent in quarterback, fullback, halfback?eveyone, in fact, but the hunchback of Notre Dame. Even wizards cannot have a great team every year, and against an Army eleven that looked very much like a great team, his strategy could accomplish little. Score: Army 27; Notre Dame...