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If a girl, then, is made to know that when any organ is in a congested and softened state it is much more likely to be injured than at other times, she will not, while this is the case, if previously properly educated on the will side, draw her dress tightly around her yielding form, and stand or dance at a party for hours together; she will not skate for hours; she will probably not ride for hours on a trotting horse; she will not take long walks; she will not race violently upstairs, or plunge violently down, because she has been taught to believe that no one can with impunity array her individual will against the laws of nature; and thus two of the most frequent causes of trouble, which are displacements or the bending forward of any organ, will be avoided.
Yes, suh, 'is black hawss wakin' up! Show him something, baby! Show him ow' class!" Jockey Grogan laughed and flung an insult over his shoulder. "Class? That skate?" said he. "Stay with us as long as you can. This is a-a-a horse, nigger, a-a-a horse!" Black Bill was beginning to run at last, as the grand stand acknowledged with frenzied yells.
Couldn't Dan see that Birdie was pretending? Didn't he know that she could skate by herself quite as well as he could? Never once during the evening did Dan make his escape, and never once did Nance go to his rescue. When they were taking off their skates to go home, Birdie whispered to her: "I believe I got old slow-coach going. Watch me make him smoke up for a treat!"
John's skate sank to his shoe sole in a crack and sent him sprawling. He stood up shakily and rubbed a bruised knee. "First fall, first fall," yelled Bill as he turned back. "Hurt much?" John shook his head and started off again bravely. They got into the swing of it as they swept under the second island bridge and out on the last lap of the course.
Carrie and Lucy Poole were paired off with two of the big boys, and they were nowhere near as good skaters as Trix Severn. Yet Trix was neglected. She had to go alone upon the ice, or skate with another girl. There was a reason for this neglect that Trix could not appreciate. Boys do not like to escort a girl who is always "knocking" some other girl.
Winn approved of it highly. He thought it a smart and sensible way to skate, and was by no means a bad exponent; but once he had seen Claire skating on the big rink, he put aside his abortive circling round an orange. It is difficult to concentrate upon being a ramrod when every instinct in you desires to chase a swallow.
"Skate ol' man, let m' 'lone," growled Ned, as he uncoiled himself to some extent and re-arranged the bundle for another snooze. With a light laugh Tom Westlake left his brother to enjoy his repose, and descended to the breakfast-room, where his sister Matilda, better known as Matty, met him with a warm reception. Everything that met him in that breakfast-parlour was warm.
But while the novelty lasted, she was quite a Florence Nightingale. Her Wednesday and Saturday after-noons were no longer her own. Before Prudy's lameness, Susy had used her new skates a great deal, and could now skim over the ice quite gracefully, for a little girl of her age. The reason she learned to skate so well, was because she was fearless.
Marshall took no outward notice, although when the meal was finished she sent her daughter out into the piercing December air with the command to walk six miles before coming in. Sylvia recoiled at the prospect of solitude. "Oh, I'd rather go and skate with Judy and Larry!" she cried. "Well, if you skate hard enough," her mother conceded.
Blue, if fate hadn't made a cowpuncher of me, I'd be chewing up lead-pencils trying to find a rhyme for alfalfa, maybe. And where would you be, you old skate?
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