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Lessons, or tasks, should be short. Mistakes of some manual labor schools. Of particular amusements in the nursery. With small wooden cubes pictures shuttlecock the rocking horse tops and marbles backgammon checkers morrice dice nine-pins skipping the rope trundling the hoop playing at ball kites skating and swimming dissected maps black boards elements of letters dissected pictures.
And so Carnacha was a cheat, Cañizares an artful hag, and Montiela a fool and a rogue be it said without offence, if by chance she was the mother of us both, or yours, for I won't have her for mine. Furthermore, I say that the true meaning is a game of nine-pins, in which those that stand up are quickly knocked down, and the fallen are set up again, and that by a hand that is able to do it.
As the startled attendants turned round the troopers fell upon them, and with heavy blows from their fists knocked them to the ground like nine-pins. The bishop turned round and shouted: "Villains, I am the bishop!" "I know that!" Terence exclaimed, and sprang at him. The prelate reeled and fell. Terence threw himself upon him, and seizing his hand wrested from it the episcopal ring.
At last the earth ceased to tremble and houses to fall; the dust stopped dancing and whirling, and the sun once more appeared. During the first shock of the earthquake Broadfoot was standing with another officer on the ramparts, his eyes fixed on the defences, which had caused him so much labour, and were now falling like nine-pins.
After a while he had a fancy to set the nine-pins up and then rolled the balls at them, and screamed and cried out when the nine-pins fell, and had a merry time of it. The giant heard the noise, stretched his head out of the window, and saw a man who was not taller than other men, and yet played with his nine-pins. "Little worm," cried he, "why art thou playing with my balls?
You'd ought to have seen him wading into them d d Fee-neens, swinging his sledge, and singing 'Onward, Christian soldiers. Then, with me to chip in a cuss word now and again when things got hot, he pulled through the day without ripping an oath. I tell you, it was a sight. He bowled 'em over like nine-pins. You ought to 'a' been there." "Yes," said Yates regretfully.
We went round one turning, two turnings, three turnings, four turnings, five. Then I lifted myself slowly up from the gutter where I had been shot half senseless, and was beaten down again by living men crashing on top of me, and the world was full of roaring, and big men rolling about like nine-pins." Buck looked at his map with knitted brows. "Was that Portobello Road?" he asked.
Here and there a flight of broad stone cellar-steps appears, and a painted lamp directs you to the Bowling Saloon, or Ten-Pin alley; Ten-Pins being a game of mingled chance and skill, invented when the legislature passed an act forbidding Nine-Pins. But how quiet the streets are! Are there no itinerant bands; no wind or stringed instruments? No, not one.
"Had the marquis attended to his garden, like Candide, or your humble servant, and eschewed the company of kings he might have been as care-free as he was wretched. His monarchs were knocked down like nine-pins. Louis XVIII was a man of straw; Charles X, a feather-top, and Louis Philippe, a toy ruler. The marquis' domestic life was as unblest as his political career.
One day it happened that young Howard and Holloway were playing at nine-pins together, and little Oliver was within a few yards of them, sitting under a tree, with a book upon his knees, anxiously trying to make out his lesson.
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