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...landed upon the head of Alexander. Horse and rider then threw simultaneous somersaults through tissue-paper hoops held by the Clown, with such agility that Diogenes was heard to observe, "If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Bucephalus." The Highland Fling performed on a tight rope by the nine Muses followed these equestrian feats. The band accompanied the dancers with the tune "One little, two little, three little Injuns," but we are sorry to say that premiere danseuse Terpsichore hardly did justice to her reputation...
Soon ice has stiffened yard and rope...
...down by a mast and study Herbert Spencer on Style. (N. B. I was conditioned in Rhetoric.) Presently a very common-looking man shouts out, "Stand by to hoist that Spencer." Thinking he refers to my book, I secrete it in my coat-pocket. Several sailors pull at a rope and a sail goes up. The men utter such discordant cries during the process that I go to the captain and complain. He tells me to telegraph to New York and have them dismissed. I ask him in what part of the ship the telegraph-office is. He stares...
After the exercises at the Tree, and during the remainder of the evening, a ticket will be required of every gentleman, or of gentlemen accompanied by ladies, entering the portion of the Yard enclosed by the rope...
...next feature was the running high leap, for which the entries were as follows: H. R. Grant '74, E. W. Davis '76, Rives '74, Danforth '77 and W. C. Sanger, '74. When the rope had been raised to four feet eleven inches, and after several trials Danforth succeeded in clearing...