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...Yale News is our constant visitor, and is always welcome. Its editorial articles are well written and its items interesting; though we own we get tired of running against "Those checked rubber coats" five or six times in the course of one column...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...latest method of making an oyster stew is to drive a couple of small oysters with rubber boots on through a pan of diluted milk. One of the boarding-houses in town has taken out a patent. The boys say that the stew is good and don't taste badly of the rubber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO GUSSIE. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...Contemptibles," pensively suggested the Ibex, as he sadly slipped a small package of tooth-powder in his rubber boot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMPREY AND THE IBEX. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

...with prodigious velocity into the ceiling, and again cleaving great furrows in the floor; sometimes riding the bicycle, sometimes the bicycle riding me; and once, after a brief but interesting struggle, I found myself, by a succession of wonderful convolutions, so intricately interwoven with the spokes and hub and rubber tire of the front wheel that I seemed to be a natural and necessary part of its construction; while the hind wheel had thrown itself jauntily into the air, and, with its rapid revolutions, was playing sweet &AEolian melodies against the margin of my ear. All this was more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I LEARN TO RIDE A BICYCLE. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...mule started, first with five or six buckjumps of twenty feet or more, and then went off at a tangent down the road, his tail high in the air, puffing fire from his nostrils, and increasing his speed at every jump, whilst the poor detective, bouncing like an india-rubber ball on his back, landed alternately upon the sharp protuberances of the army saddle, and cried to him to stop, that he wanted to get off and walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVENGE IS SWEET. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

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