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Eight men attempted the contest in Tumbling, R. P. Dabney, '82, J. W. Fox, '83, A. C. Denniston, '83, L. W. Kendall, '84, E. F. Wells, '82, and C. W. Belshaw, '83. This was a very amusing event. A new feature was jumping over a canvas screen and then through it. The prize was awarded to L. W. Kendall...
SCENE: A room in an Intelligence Office. Blind screen in centre, on one side of which Superintendent is seated at desk. Enter Miss Daisy Chizzlehurst. Superintendent rises and curtsies...
...With reminiscences of her millinery days]. - I have the very thing you wish, I am sure, - a very superior article, mum. If you'll kindly be seated for a moment, mum, I'll send him up. [Exit Mrs. F. Miss C. sits down with back to screen, and takes up a book to read...
Enter Tom Hathaway at other side of screen, with whip, and dressed as from riding. Soliloq. - "Well, here 's a pretty go! The idea of my being sent on such a wild goose chase! - As if I knew anything about maids! They might as well have told me to hire a howling dervish. Just as I was going off for a day's sport, too! I think mother might have hit on some other time to get sick. Some people are confoundedly inconsiderate, any way. [Notices screen.] Holloa! they cage the animals, do they? [Peeks through blind.] By Jove, there...
...brought in fresh branches, and made a bed on the floor of the cave. With two broad leafy boughs, he made, as it were, curtains for the door, which should screen Tue from the fire, but not cut her off from its heat. Tue watched him, as he made all these arrangements for her comfort, with a feeling in which alarm was tempered by a strange complacency...