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He left her to suppose him uncommonly hot stuff at baseball. "If you're on my side," said Cecily, "mind you pass to me." It became evident to Mr. Direck that he was going to play this hockey after all. "Well," he said, "if I've got to play hockey, I guess I've got to play hockey. But can't I just get a bit of practice somewhere before the game begins?"
They were, of course, not big; perhaps three feet high was the largest size. The roofs seemed to be of tiles, the walls were white, the windows were brightly lighted, and I could see people moving about inside. But there were plenty of people outside, too people about six inches high walking about, standing about, talking, running, playing some game which might have been hockey.
I will tell you about our later fixtures when I see you at Christmas, so until then Good-bye. "With love from your affectionate cousin, "Nora Clifford." An Unpleasant Experience The girls filed out from the hockey ground as speedily as possible. There was a train due from Grovebury in about a quarter of an hour. They walked to the station in groups, discussing details of the match as they went.
Chess, dice, draughts, Punch, hockey, and battledore and shuttlecock, are all Indo-Chinese or Tartarian; and no one familiar with the wonderful instances of similarity between the monasteries, ritual, ceremonies, attributes, vestments, and other paraphernalia of the eastern and western churches, can fail to acknowledge the importance of recording even the most trifling analogies or similarities between the manners and customs of the young as well as of the old.
"As a matter of fact," said Power, "hardly any of them had any arms, except hockey sticks, and the Colonel thought they'd piled them up somewhere. He seems to have been a decent sort of fellow. He made O'Farrelly and a few more prisoners, and told the rest of them to be off home." "Ireland," said Waterhouse, "must be a dd queer country."
In his black velvet cloak and cap, and his black silk tights, he was very like a minor character, a court chamberlain for example, in some cloak and rapier drama. "I find this week-end dancing and kicking about wonderfully wholesome," he said. "That and our Sunday hockey. One starts the new week clear and bright about the mind. Friday is always my worst working day." Mr.
He leapt on Rudd, bore him to the ground, and sat on his head. Foul language was audible from the bottom of the floor. Rudd had not studied Euripides for nothing. Lovelace picked up a hockey stick. "This, gentlemen," he began, "is a hockey stick, useful as an implement of offence if the prisoner gets above himself, and also useful as a means of destroying worthless property.
'Then why did you tell me just now you hadn't taken it? Stephen demanded crossly. 'I didn't feel well enough to argue with you then, Vera replied. 'You've recovered precious quick, retorted Stephen with grimness. Stephen knew when he was beaten. She went to the Hockey dance, though.
What's the good of being out if one is to have nothing chic? And she won't let me have a hockey outfit. She says she must see more of it to be able to judge whether to let us play!" "That just means seeing whether her dear Merrifields do," said Paula. "Gillian did at St. Catherine's. But you will know soon. Did I not hear something about a garden party?"
The committee never saw it. Babe was chairman, you know, and she put her shoulder out of joint playing hockey the day the songs were called in, so I emptied the box for her. I remember I stopped in my room on the way back and I must have dropped yours there. Anyhow it turned up to-day in my top drawer. I'm awfully sorry."
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