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...tennis nets in the Society building, and make a long seine of them by tying the ends together. When the small fry run in for the broken bats (after the next ball game) get two men who are running for the Pudding to drag the net round them, and the business is done. Stow them away in adjoining cellars until they are wanted. They could be very cheaply kept on Memorial or Fresh Pond soup, whichever is decided to be the most nutritious. You would have complete control of the market, because you would be sure to have ninety-five...
...Dimple round its hundred isles...
Leaving their comfortable rooms at Cambridge, six men had to sleep in two rooms of low ceiling, barely 14 feet square. Three men occupied two smaller rooms; and two men, who rowed on the Crew proper, each occupied garret-rooms, or rather closets, with scarcely space to move round. Added to all this, the mattresses furnished were worn-out truck taken from an old steamboat. There was no shade around the place, and the house becoming very warm during the day, it was midnight before it became sufficiently cool to allow one to get to sleep. It is safe...
...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...
...received an invitation from Barnum, and a flattering testimonial, signed by two hundred citizens of note, urging me to go lecturing round the country; but we preferred quiet, and retired to live happily thenceforth in the aristocratic seclusion of our country seat in Virginia...