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"Now," said I, gaining courage, "I have spent most of my life at sea, where we don't play the games you have on shore, but if any of you will teach me, I shall be very glad to learn them; and perhaps I may show you how to do a number of things you know nothing about." From that day forward I was never bothered by having questions put to me.
"That's one epithet I haven't had hurled at me enough times to make me nervous." He looked at the horses critically. "You don't suppose there's any chance of a runaway here to give me another opportunity, do you?" "How about the football games, and the races at New London?" Alice asked. "What do you know about those?" "I read all about everything in the papers.
The desire to knock a ball about, to play silly games with a stick, comes upon a man most keenly when he is happy; let it be ascribed that he is happy to the streams and the hedges and the sunlight through the trees. And so let my stick have a handle heavy and straight, and let there be no ferrule on the end. Be sure that I have an old golf ball in my pocket. In London one is not so particular.
In the same way, the result of all the games and sports which occupy the passing generation of boys and young men may be the establishment of a better and sounder physical type for the future to work with.
Then there will be peppermint candy hearts with mottoes printed on them, and lace-paper napkins with verses on them, so that the table itself will look like a lovely big valentine. The games are lovely, too. One is parlour archery, with a red heart in the middle of the target, and two prizes, one for the boys and one for the girls."
A few games with Eastern colleges relieved the monotony, but the results were far from being always satisfactory. Two interesting games with the Japanese students of Keio University ended the season of 1911. While the University won both games with scores of 20 to 5 and 3 to 1, they demonstrated how apt the Oriental has been in picking up the fine points of the great American game.
It seemed that he was being made to do menial work in the kitchen, whereas he was really a millionaire, to substantiate which this delightful person again resorted to his wardrobe and drew forth a number of crumpled and dirty mining papers. All the games were going roulette, vingt-et-un, faro, poker, stud-poker, Klondike, and craps.
They were not allowed to play competitive games; they were under the constant supervision of teachers; they had scarcely any exercise but walks; and they were often rather encouraged in the notion that it was desirable to die young.
Well, I do play tennis, or rather, I used to play fairly well some years ago " "By gad! just what I thought. Go slow in your practice games, Miss Wynton, an' you'll have a rippin' handicap." "Would that be quite honest?" said Helen, lifting her steadfast brown eyes to meet his somewhat too free scrutiny. "Honest? Rather!
"And maybe Art can bring his sister to the island to see us, and then we could play boys' games and girls', too," went on Jan. "I'll ask my mother," promised Arthur. Grandpa and the expressman soon had the wagon loaded, and Arthur, rode back in it with the Curlytops to the wharf where the boat was tied. "All aboard for Star Island!" cried Mr.
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