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"If you want to succeed at college you've got to do the things the other fellows do and you've got to do them the same way." "You mean I've got to travel in a rut?" "Oh, well! That's a way of putting it. I mean that you have to accept customs and traditions. You have to work like the devil doing things that count. If you make the team you've got to think football, talk it, eat it, dream it."
It was strung with bright new silver strings, but near the bridge of it there was a little rut worn into the wood by the tips of the fingers that had rested there while playing, and the silken shoulder-ribbon was faded and worn. Nick stopped, then put out both his hands as if to touch it, yet did not, being half afraid. "Tut, take it up!" said Carew, sharply, though he had not seemed to heed.
He had despatched Hirtuleius into the Further province to keep Metellus in check, and had himself endeavoured to follow up his complete victory in the Hither province, and to prepare for the reception of Pompeius. In vain the hard-pressed towns had sent message after message to Pompeius; he would not be induced by any entreaties to depart from his wonted rut of slowly advancing.
The coach must already have reached the crossroads, and was now, without doubt, speeding southward on a course parallel with my own, but downhill, whereas the byroad, though shorter, was for the most part uphill, and so rough that I risked spraining my ankle on a stone or in a rut.
I though Mum was right: cafard, you remember. But I've swung round into the same rut. It's a rotten system. I'm done with it." Raven looked at him in a sudden sharp misery of apprehension. First, Old Crow, then he, then Dick, one generation following another. "Don't you go that path, old man," he said. "You'll only lose your way and have to come back." "Come back?" "Yes. Old Crow did.
They made "the people's cause" their own, and shouted treason until the commission charged with condemning the Bend actually did meet and greased its wheels. But at the next turn they were down in a rut again, and the team had to be prodded some more. It had taken two years to get a map of the proposed park filed under the law that authorized the laying out of it.
Aie screamed the wind and created a pillar of white powder. Fanny, losing her balance, one foot sank on the edge of a rut, and she went down on her hands; to the knees her silk-clad legs met the cold bite of the snow. "You must come back with me," shouted Alfred in her ear. That seemed true and necessary; she could not reach the river; she could not stay where she was. She followed him.
"For life?" I boldly asked. I was so rattled at this rather broad insinuation that I swung out of the road and struck a rut, which gave the car a thorough shaking. "If that's the way you drive you will be lucky if you're not discharged before we reach Oak Cliff," Miss Harding declared, and I did not dare look in her eyes to see if she were offended or not.
Thus every man's reputation is at stake in the neighborhood, and if there is a muddy place or a rut, everybody knows who is to blame for it, and it can not be laid to the county commissioner, as is the case in America. On the outside of each road is a line of large blocks of stone set upright, which serves as a barrier to prevent wagons from going off into the ditch.
Some were dramatic and some were pathetic, and nearly all were stirring; but I still recall quite clearly the little picture of the forks of the Belgian road, with a background of trampled fields and sacked houses, and just at my feet the doll, with its head crushed in and the sawdust spilled out in the rut the ongoing army had made.
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