United States or Brazil ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'You don't say so! exclaimed Sam Shortcut, who had been flattered into riding rather harder than he liked, and feared his pluck might be put to the test. Waffles, taking his cigar from his mouth as he sat on the bench, dressed as a racket-player, looking on at the game, 'he shalln't ride roughshod over us. 'That he shalln't! exclaimed Caingey Thornton, Mr.
'The gent in the green wide-awake 'at, and big-button'd overcoat, replied Leather, 'jest now a speakin' to the youth in the tweed and all tweed; that be Master Caingey Thornton, as big a little blackguard as any in the place lives upon Waffles, and yet never has a good word to say for him, no, nor for no one else and yet to 'ear the little devil a-talkin' to him, you'd really fancy he believed there wasn't not never sich another man i' the world as Waffles not another sich rider not another sich racket-player not another sich pigeon-shooter not another sich fine chap altogether.
The only person who seems to have excelled as much in another way as Cavanagh did in his was the late John Davies, the racket-player. It was remarked of him that he did not seem to follow the ball, but the ball seemed to follow him. Give him a foot of wall, and he was sure to make the ball. The four best racket-players of that day were Jack Spines, Jem Harding, Armitage, and Church.
Word Of The Day