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It makes him look like a prize-fighter," cried Josephine. "They've no right to print his picture at all; it'll do the boy a serious injury by leading him to believe there is nothing else in the world worth thinking about but foot-ball," I asserted. "What right have they to do it?" "Pooh, Cousin Fred," said Sam. "It's nothing but ordinary newspaper enterprise.
Here Boller, in foot-ball clothes, sat on a fence, wonderfully dashing, with a foot-ball under his arm; there he was in base-ball toggery, erect with bat lifted, ready to strike; here holding a baton, a conspicuous figure in a group of young men, looking exceedingly conscious and uncomfortable in evening clothes the glee club, he explained, taken on their last tour of the State.
I would have all the males of the land trained to arms in boyhood during school-days at that period of life when boys are best fitted to receive such instruction, when they would `go in' for military drill, as they now go in for foot-ball, cricket, or gymnastics at that period when they have a good deal of leisure time, when they would regard the thing more as play than work when their memories are strong and powerfully retentive, and when the principles and practice of military drill would be as thoroughly implanted in them as the power to swim or skate, so that, once acquired, they'd never quite lose it.
In vain he tried to escape from the crowd that gathered about him, and more especially from the foot-ball men, who utterly adored him. "You can't do anything for a fellow that doesn't drink," complained Starry Hamilton, the big captain of the foot-ball team. "Drink! a nice captain you are, Starry," said Ranald, "and Thanksgiving so near." "We haven't quite shut down yet," explained the captain.
"To-morrow you will take those history books that you did not open, especially Gilman's 'Rise and Fall, which it seems you have not even purchased, and you will travel for the entire summer with a private tutor...." Peter, who had personally conducted the foot-ball and base-ball teams over half of the Middle States and daily bullied and browbeat them, protested with indignation.
When the good attorney found he could not prevail on Jones to stay, he as strenuously applied himself to persuade the guide to accompany him. He urged many motives to induce him to undertake this short journey, and at last concluded with saying, "Do you think the gentleman won't very well reward you for your trouble?" Two to one are odds at every other thing as well as at foot-ball.
They are constructed of grass and roots, are as round as a globe, and so firmly woven together, that one of them might be kicked over the prairie like a foot-ball. The nest is within, with a small hole leading into it, just large enough to admit your finger for when the marmot goes inside, he closes all up, except this little hole, through which he gets all the air he requires.
"Had I not," he told himself, "had I not bowed to Del Castello's question of 'are you anything to her? he would have been here to do his wooing; we, at an hotel, and yet, it was only human, but, bah! how mean; but was I to give up any place I may have in her heart, and yield her to the influence of his southern tongue, merely because I am held in honour not to speak, and am just now a foot-ball for Dame Rumour.
He knew they would have bloodhounds on his trail as soon as possible; that every railway-station agent would have a description of him and be on the lookout for him within a few hours; and that his mother's house would be closely watched that night: so, gathering his breath, he started in the long, steady stride of his foot-ball training across the fields and, a fugitive from justice, fled for the hills.
Some of Ranald's foot-ball friends, Little Merrill, Starry Hamilton, that's the captain, you know, and myself among them, were asked to a farewell supper by this young lady, and when the men had well drunk fed, I mean and were properly dissolved in tears over the prospect of Ranald's departure, at a critical moment the Institute was introduced as a side issue. It was dear to Ranald's heart.
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