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And then there is the wild chase after it, accompanied by an excitable small dog, who thinks it is a game, and in the course of which you are certain to upset three or four innocent children to say nothing of their mothers butt a fat old gentleman on to the top of a perambulator, and carom off a ladies' seminary into the arms of a wet sweep.
We came near making a carom sometimes, but not the one we were trying to make. The table was of the usual European style cushions dead and twice as high as the balls; the cues in bad repair. The natives play only a sort of pool on them.
His private letters to his old and confidential friend, Noel de Carom, States' ambassador in London, reveal the perplexities of his soul and the upright patriotism by which he was guided in these gathering storms.
Once when I had made a great fluke a carom followed by most of the balls falling into the pockets, he said: "When you pick up that cue this table drips at every pore." The morning dictations became a secondary interest. Like a boy, he was looking forward to the afternoon of play, and it seemed never to come quickly enough to suit him.
His private letters to his old and confidential friend, Noel de Carom, States' ambassador in London, reveal the perplexities of his soul and the upright patriotism by which he was guided in these gathering storms.
"Did you get that?" whispered John, as he drew back for a carom. "But this is very important for the city's welfare," pursued Mrs. Franklyn-Haldene. "I doubt it. So long as we do not vote " "That's just it. We can't vote, but we can get together and control the male vote in the family. That's something." John grinned at Warrington, who replied with a shrug.
But after the first mile he takes to dodgin'. Zip! he goes on two wheels around a corner. "After him now!" orders Old Hickory. "I'll make it twenty if you don't let him get away." "You're on!" says our speed maniac, and does a carom skid into a cross street that showed he didn't need any banked turns in his.
"You have read the master?" he inquired, with a sudden, new-born interest in the secretary. "Read him?" cried Carom forgetting for the moment the sore condition of his body in the delight of discovering one who was bound to him by such bonds of sympathy as old Rousseau established. "Read him, Monsieur?
I took off the cloth, got out the balls, picked out a cue for Mr. Edison, and when we banked for the first shot I won and started the game. After making two or three shots I missed, and a long carom shot was left for Mr. Edison, the cue ball and object ball being within about twelve inches of each other, and the other ball a distance of nearly the length of the table. Mr.
Such men as Adrian Van der Werff, the heroic burgomaster of Leyden during its famous siege, John Van der Does, statesman, orator, soldier, poet, Adolphus Meetkerke, judge, financier, politician, Carl Roorda, Noel de Carom diplomatist of most signal ability, Floris Thin, Paul Buys, and Olden-Barneveld, with many others, who would have done honour to the legislative assemblies and national councils in any country or any age, were constantly returned as members of the different vroedschaps in the commonwealth.
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