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The crowning ambition of their lives of honest toil is not unlimited silk-stockings and champagne suppers, but the combined and unqualified approval of Mr. GRANVILLE BARKER and Miss HORNIMAN. I fear the Philistines will not be much impressed with Mr. KEBLE HOWARD'S championship. In the first place he selects for his heroine a girl of what used to be known as the "lower orders."
Among them were Stormy Jim, who claimed the championship; Powder Horn Bill, who had the reputation of never missing what he shot at; also White Head, a half breed, who generally hit what he shot at, and many other men who knew how to handle a rifle or 45-colt. The range was measured off 100 and 250 yards for the rifle and 150 for the Colt 45.
But she volunteered nothing about herself except that she frequently made use of the expression, 'When my husband was stationed at Vienna, or 'When my husband was promoted to Rome. Once she said to me, 'I have often seen you at Monte Carlo. I saw you when you won the pigeon- championship. I told her that I was not a pigeon-shot, and she gave a little start of surprise.
Only remember we are not now dealing with Robert Ratman, but with an injured man who has not had a fair chance. The good in him," continued the father, deluded by the passive look on his daughter's face, and becoming suddenly warm in his championship of the absent creditor, "has been smothered; but for aught we know it may still be there. A wife "
If he could make the next game, the set would be his, and with it the championship of the troop. He was counting on the fact that Walter was apt to go to pieces at a critical moment; this helped to keep the playing fairly even.
The distinguished lady who approves of woman's vote in municipal affairs, and fights hard for her son's candidature in Parliament, but objects to woman suffrage on the ground that women should not interfere in politics, could doubtless find a good reason why women should sit in Parliament; and though she would scarcely be heeded on matters of political theory, her splendid championship of Vacation Schools and Play Centres would be more effective than ever in the House, and might instruct some of her male confrères as to what politics really is.
Berlin is the increasingly important capital of the German Empire, growing rapidly, but still the royal impersonation of Prussia and the Hohenzollerns; seated in something of mediæval costume and quiet beside the river Spree; as content to cast a satisfied glance backward to Frederick the Great and the Electors of Brandenburg as to look forward to imperial supremacy among the Great Powers, and the championship of continental Protestant Europe.
Kelly demanded angrily. "You lose, anyway," Spider Hagerty supplemented. "The referee'll take it away from you. Listen to Kelly, and lay down." "Lay down, kid," Kelly pleaded, "and I'll help you to the championship." Rivera did not answer. "I will, so help me, kid." At the strike of the gong Rivera sensed something impending. The house did not.
However, at this crisis I came out again and won a stroke at each of the next three holes, and only lost one of them from that point to the seventeenth. Two strokes to the good and two holes to go that at least seemed good for the Championship.
"I don't believe they did," Walter admitted. "Did Rome ever win the baseball championship?" demanded Mr. Perkins. "No, sir." "I thought not. Then what's the use in spending four years over those old fellers? How is it going to help you?" "I don't expect it will help me to earn a living, sir. Do you think you can employ me?" "What are your ideas as to a salary, young man?"
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