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He had been active enough under a tropical sky, when his mind was kept alive by a modicum of hard work and a very wide margin of sport pig-sticking, peacock-shooting, paper-chases, all the delights of an Indian life.
Paper-chases were the leading incident in the term, and there was a general looking forward to spring weather, when cricket could begin and the teams commence practice for the matches of the following term. Easton was going up in the summer for the examination for the line. He was not troubling himself specially about it; and indeed his getting in was regarded as a certainty, for Mr.
The various other girls on board, with whom she was popular, had assured her of the joys awaiting her and them in Rangoon. Dances, picknics, concerts, paper-chases in short, no end of gaiety all to be enjoyed in that yet unknown and romantic country, "the Land of the Golden Umbrella."
Georgie won his growth and chest measurement, and a few other things which did not appear in the bills, under a system of cricket, foot-ball, and paper-chases, from four to five days a week, which provided for three lawful cuts of a ground-ash if any boy absented himself from these entertainments.
Fortescue spoken less gravely and not been so obviously in earnest, I should have thought he was joking. "You don't mean Was it a paper-chase?" I said, rather foolishly. "No; it was not a paper-chase," he answered, grimly. "There were no paper-chases in my time. I mean that I was once hunted, just as we have been hunting that fox." "With a pack of hounds?" "Yes, with a pack of hounds."
And in the Christmas holiday we all tore about the muddy fields in 'paper-chases. Later on I remember writing a paper for my friends on how to dress on eighty pounds a year, which was my allowance at eighteen.
Freddy was small and light, and four short years before had been a renowned hare in his school paper-chases: he went through the wood at a pace that gave Patsey and the puppies all they could do to keep with him, and dropped into a road just in time to see the pack streaming up a narrow lane near the end of the wood.
It was a long churchwarden, and he liked the stem to be steeped in a solution of sal volatile, or something of that kind, so that it did not stick to his lips. But he and all the others seemed to me very old. There were my young knights waiting for me; and jumping gates, climbing trees, and running paper-chases are pleasant when one is young.
There was nothing for it but to accept the situation, and at last she said: "The only way in which you can help me is by keeping silent." "How long have you known?" "About six weeks." "So now I understand why we see you so seldom at tennis or the paper-chases." "Yes; and now that you do understand, perhaps you will help me and put people off when they ask tiresome questions."
She was not called upon to shine on a race-course, but carried her master admirably in Station paper-chases on Thursday afternoons. By the MacNab this investment was looked upon with a dubious and unfavourable eye, although he was aware that the price of "Moonshine" had come out of a small nest-egg which her owner had brought from home.
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