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Are you scared?" asked Laura, looking at him archly. "Not so that the band-leader could notice it," replied Dave. "Yet I think we'd all be making more noise if this were a freshman dance." "But the freshmen don't have a dance until just before commencement time," put in Belle Meade, who was there with Dave. "Anyway, the seniors are not so very important," laughed Laura.
I'm not afraid," Dave half boasted, for now he could think of nothing but victory. "All right. Take it," agreed Hepson. Dave Darrin did take the kick. Never had he made a better one. The ball went straight and true between the goal-posts. The band-leader held his baton poised, but the Navy spectators broke into such a riot of joy that he let the baton fall inertly.
Just yesterday I was saying to Harry Haydock: if he would read poetry, like Longfellow, or if he would join the band I get so much pleasure out of playing the cornet, and our band-leader, Del Snafflin, is such a good musician, I often say he ought to give up his barbering and become a professional musician, he could play the clarinet in Minneapolis or New York or anywhere, but but I couldn't get Harry to see it at all and I hear you and the doctor went out hunting yesterday.
It was just on the eve of the battle of Pharsalus, and the balance in the great contest seemed to incline to the side of the Pompeians; Rufus entered into communication with the old senatorian band-leader Milo, and the two contrived a counter-revolution, which inscribed on its banner partly the republican constitution, partly the cancelling of creditors' claims and the manumission of slaves.
It was just on the eve of the battle of Pharsalus, and the balance in the great contest seemed to incline to the side of the Pompeians; Rufus entered into communication with the old senatorian band-leader Milo, and the two contrived a counter-revolution, which inscribed on its banner partly the republican constitution, partly the cancelling of creditors' claims and the manumission of slaves.
These were large bundles of cocoanut-husks and candlenuts soaked in oil, and they gave a generous flare. Suddenly, we heard the mairie-bell tolling. The band-leader climbed upon the roof of the kiosk, descended, and gave a vigorous beat upon the air for "the Marseillaise," which ends all concerts.
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