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He was good with horses; possessing the faculty of handling them that springs only from a patient, kindly, instinctive love of animals. "Nay! I dhrive mostly," Slavin was telling him, "buckboard an' team's away handier for a man av weight like meself. Eyah!" he sighed, "tho' time was whin I cud throw a leg over wid th' best av thim.
"Think of playing the 'Jeffersons' on the 'Tigers' Home Grounds. 'Tain't every team could say that, could it?" Which was the truth, for the vacant lots of the neighborhood were being rapidly supplanted by flat buildings and room for boyish playgrounds was becoming more and more scarce. Sid considered the matter a moment. Certainly it would add to the team's, and his, prestige.
Fred Harper, the scrub quarter-back, then snapped the ball to Teeny-bits, who eluded the opposing end, slipped out of the clutches of the left half-back and was finally downed by Neil Durant ten yards from the first team's goal line.
Actually, of course, we've had some idea of each other's progress since team members occasionally meet on trips back here to the Pedagogue to consult the library. I am afraid, my dear Leonid, that your theories on industrialization are rapidly being proven inaccurate." "Nonsense!" Mayer said smoothly, "In the decade past, my team's efforts have more than tripled the Genoese industrial potential.
Like a flash Redmond sprang from the cutter, and rapidly and warily he unhooked the team's traces. This done he crept to their heads and slipped the end of the tongue out of the neck-yoke ring. Slavin by this time was also on his feet in the snow, with the situation well in hand. He clucked softly to his team, the fallen horse plunged to its feet again and the next moment all was clear.
It was time, he said to himself, that the foot of Authority was set firmly down, and the strong right hand of Justice allowed to put in some energetic work. His comments on the team's fielding that morning were bitter and sarcastic. His eyes gleamed behind their pince-nez. The painful interview took place after breakfast. The head of the house despatched his fag in search of Mike, and waited.
The next day started in an atmosphere of suppressed excitement and anxiety, which, beginning with MacLeod and Karen and Kato Sugihara, seemed to communicate itself by contagion to everybody in the MacLeod Team's laboratories.
Professor Sillcocks looked rather depressed for a day or two, but he soon cheered up and seemed to forget the team's existence. We swam right along, beating Pottawattamie, scoring sixty points on Ogallala and getting into magnificent condition for the Kiowa game on Thanksgiving. That was the game of the year for us.
"I think I can " She meant that she could get out of the coupe without help, but, perceiving that she had already accomplished this feat, she decided not to complete the sentence. "You, JOE!" cried the driver, angrily, climbing to his box. And he rumbled away at his team's best pace a snail's. "Thank you for bringing me home, Mr. Sheridan," said Mary, stiffly. She did not offer her hand.
Major Garnet pressed forward to where, at the team's left, the owner of these chattels sat on his ill-conditioned horse. "President Garnet! I hope yo' well, sir? Aw at least," noticing the lame arm, "I hope yo' mendin'." "Thank you, Brother March, I'm peart'nin, as they say." The Major smiled broadly until his eye fell again upon the mulatto. The Judge saw him stiffen.
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