Word: took
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...before, it was considered hardly right to make any one return for a recitation, though the preparation of this took up but a short time of the vacation, is it just, now, to impose upon us an examination in preparation for which, if we hope to pass at all fairly, we shall be obliged to spend nearly the whole of the two days allowed? For even if it is argued that we should be prepared at all times for examination, every one knows that not even the most persistent "dig" - and perhaps he least of all - would wish...
...their form took fixed shape...
...Meant to start at 4. Companion, - athletic Freshman. Equipment, - old hats, flannel shirts, double-decked boots, six-foot staves, knapsacks (twenty pounds each), one saucepan, and two tin cups. (We had a little brandy, three pints.) Destination, - unknown. Walked twenty miles before dinner. Weather rather debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands. Soothed by sight of Freshman's pocket-Bible...
...took their "brazen dogs...
...opening the cover, sure enough, the name of "Scribner" appeared on the title-page. And Scribner is not alone. A friend who bought a text-book of the Boston agents of another New York firm found, on taking it home, that several leaves were loose. He at once took it back to ask an exchange, but was greeted with a refusal, accompanied by the information that "they did n't warrant cloth-bound books...