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Why do you suppose those wagons of yours are loaded with guns for which so many cattle must be paid? Not to shoot game with, I think. Well, this little kraal of my father's is just now the headquarters of the Umbelazi faction, the Isigqosa, as the princedom of Gikazi is that of Cetewayo.
They were saved from freezing to death only by digging a rude shelter through the snow into the side of a hill, and there they crouched for two days with so little food left in their knapsacks, that without game, they would perish, in a week, of hunger, if the cold did not get the first chance.
Haley's getting in the game of "curbing" her stirred up my risibles. "But but Sallie already has a good many people to help her with the children. I have been trying to to influence Henrietta and she does not swear except on the most exasperating occasions now."
"Like May Pope used to say, a girl might as well have the game as the name." "If I was a free man, Marj, I'd " "Where has the strait and narrow got me to, I'd like to know? Sometimes I think it's nothing but a blind alley pushing me back." "If I was a free man, Marj "
But I'm sorry we're so nearly out of meat," said Alex. "You can't travel far on flour and tea." "Won't there be any game in the river below the Rockies?" asked Rob.
"Well, it will be a help," said the coach. "We hear one thing to-day, and the exact opposite to-morrow, so we never know what to believe. But if you go and see this game, you ought to be able to get a pretty fair line on the real state of affairs."
But, somehow or other, and about something unknown to the rest of us, the Rube and Nan quarreled. It was their first quarrel. Milly and I tried to patch it up but failed. We lost the first game to Providence and won the second. The next day, a Saturday, was the last game of the trip, and it was Rube's turn to pitch.
I liked my work at the hospital I was busy all day. Here " "If I were you," interrupted Collingwood, "I'd set to work nursing in another fashion. Look after your brother! Get him going at something even if it's playing golf. Play with him! It would do him and you all the good in the world if you got thoroughly infatuated with even a game. Don't you see?"
As we glance at the accompanying picture of a Yale-West Point game, we will observe the earnest effort that is being made in the great game of football the crash of conflict. One particularly amusing story is told about a former Lehigh player in a Princeton game several years ago.
They could not, however, teach him to game, swear, drink, nor any other genteel vice the town abounded with. He applied most of his leisure hours to music, in which he greatly improved himself, so that he led the opinion of all the other footmen at an opera.
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