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No one struck with the hand, but all manner of tripping with legs and feet and butting with the knees was allowed. Altogether it was an exhausting pastime fully equal to the American game of football and only the young athlete could really enjoy it. One of our most curious sports was a war upon the nests of wild bees.
The coloured woman leaped into the air like an athlete, and, turning with a swiftness astounding in one of her weight, beheld the semaphoric arm of Gipsy again extended between the bars and hopefully reaching for her. Beside herself, she lifted her right foot briskly from the ground, and allowed the sole of her shoe to come in contact with Gipsy's cage.
At this time nothing but the best seemed to satisfy the Fates. One day it would be a trusted colour-sergeant, on another a couple of particularly promising young corporals. Only last week the Adjutant athlete, scholar, born soldier, and very lovable schoolboy, all most perfectly blended had fallen mortally wounded, on his morning round of the fire-trenches, by a bullet which came from nowhere.
He compares it to an athlete who has never run on 'Constitution Hill, to a statue so beautiful that it is entirely removed from the ordinary conditions of humanity, and consequently from the canons of criticism.
"Ah, I understand, the young man of whom you spoke " "Was your son, Fanfaro!" "I thought so," said the athlete; "if Fanfaro is alone only one second, he generally finds time to save somebody. Where is the boy now?" "He will be here soon. He asked me to get on the back of the horse with him. I got up first, and hardly had the fiery steed felt some one on his back than he flew away like an arrow.
"That's precisely the conclusion I've reached myself. I've asked him to come this morning. He may be in at any moment." I looked out of the window thoughtfully toward the distant Jersey shore. "This isn't like Jerry. He's a fine athlete and a good sportsman for the fun he gets out of the thing. But he has too good a mind not to be above the personal vulgarity of such an exhibition as this.
When they did, both showed surprise. Comfort, if not elegance, confronted them, which impression, however, was immediately lost in the evidences of work, manual, as well as intellectual, which were everywhere scattered about. The man who lived here was not only a student, as was evinced by a long wall full of books, but he was an art-lover, a musician, an inventor and an athlete.
"No doubt you'll become used to it in time.... By the by, I was in fun about old Nick. His objection to grouse coverts and deer-stalking I can't fancy him in war." As she didn't reply he picked up his fork, adding: "Yet he's a tremendous athlete polo and all that sort of thing.
Many a college athlete joined the ranks, while a limited few, gifted with relatives who had both push and "pull," were permitted to pass a not very exacting examination and join the permanent establishment as second lieutenants forthwith.
At the same time I am impelled to link my arm affectionately in my son David's, next to whom I am sitting. I cannot help wondering what he, dear boy, is thinking of it all. He is perfectly healthy, but he is slight, and will never be an athlete. His tastes do not run in that direction.
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