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Lost.-A dark-brown silk umbrella with dark wooden handle. Finder will please return...
...made of extra canvas, double-stitched and close-fitting. In the back is an elastic insertion about eight inches long and diamond-shaped, which enables the players to bend more easily than the ordinary stiff jacket will allow. In the front is a large letter "H" in crimson silk. Instead of metal eyelet protectors, which in a scrimmage often tear the fingers, the holes are worked in silk. The crimson-gray over which the jacket is worn is of heavy knitted material, as are also the hose, both being made on machinery imported by the firm. The knee-breeches...
Lost.-A dark-brown silk umbrella with dark wooden handle. Finder will please return...
Lost.-A dark-brown silk umbrella with dark wooden handle. Finder will please return...
...Surely no one appreciates this more than the undergraduate, who when the torments of the class-room are over for the time, has field to his room for a quiet smoke or an hour's study, and is interrupted first, by the dark-skinned man with the earrings and silk handkerchief knotted around his throat. He knocks softly, and entering mysteriously, informs you that he has just arrived from Havana on the steamer, and has, with infinite pains and danger succeeded in smuggling a few thousand cigars, which he happens to have in the bundle that he carries under...