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ONE can thresh the straw of history until he is well worn out, and also is running some risk of wearing others out who may have to listen, so I will waive the telling of who the first cowboy was, even if I knew; but the last one who has come under my observation lives down in Florida, and the way it happened was this: I was sitting in a "sto' do'," as the "Crackers" say, waiting for the clerk to load some "number eights," when my friend said, "Look at the cowboys!"
At the name, there was a quick and stiffening change in Sorell's face. "You knew him before? Yes he told me. A queer fellow very able. They say he'll get his First. Well we shall meet at the Eights and then we'll make plans. Goodnight." He smiled on her, and went his way, ruminating uncomfortably as he walked back to his college along the empty midnight streets. Falloden?
"Tens I says," she confided to me one day, "but he will have eights, and what's the consequence? If I want to do a bit of extry needle-work I might light up two tens, but I should never have the heart to burn two eights at once, for extravagance I can't abear. Ah! he's a hard master, and I'm sorry for you, my dear." "Why?" I said.
"Ultimately lost you were by the very trifling margin of superiority that a hand known as a club flush bears over another hand consisting of three of the eights not quite all of them, you understand, only three, and two other quite meaningless cards." I could but stammer piteously, I fear. I heard myself make a wretched failure of words that crowded to my lips. "But it's quite simple, I tell you.
As women we can no longer claim for ourselves what we do not for others, nor can we work in two separate movements to get the ballot for the two disfranchised classes, negroes and women, since to do so must be at double cost of time, energy and money.... Therefore, that we may henceforth concentrate all our forces for the practical application of our one grand, distinctive, national idea universal suffrage I hope we will unanimously adopt the resolution before us, thus resolving ourselves into the American Equal Eights Association.
I only remembered that years before Harry Feversham had been my friend, my one great friend; that we had rowed in the same college boat at Oxford, he at stroke, I at seven; that the stripes on his jersey during three successive eights had made my eyes dizzy during those last hundred yards of spurt past the barges. We had bathed together in Sandford Lasher on summer afternoons.
There can be few men in Oxford who do not enjoy themselves during Eights' Week, and I imagine that the only miserable people to be found are those who happen to be in an eight which is bumped several times during the week.
"Saint Eustace! Saint Eustace! Saint Eustace!" "Hillton! Hillton! Hillton!" Then the cheering grew louder and more frenzied as, boat to boat, the rival eights passed the half-mile buoy, swinging along with no perceptible effort over the blue, dancing water. "Anybody's race," said Outfield West, as he lowered his glasses. "But Hillton's got the outside course on the turn."
He realised in her, with a disagreeable surprise, the note that was so unlike her mother the note of recklessness, of vehement will. It was really ill-luck that some one else than Douglas Falloden could not have been found to look after her riding. "I suppose you will be 'doing' the Eights all next week?" said Herbert Pryce to the eldest Miss Hooper.
He unloosed the half hitches that held it to the cleat, threw off all but one figure-eight turn, and let the anchor line run out slowly. When he estimated about fifty feet had run through, he put on more figure eights around the cleat, then dropped half hitches over to secure the line. Once more he reached out and held the taut line. It didn't seem to be slipping.
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