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That tells me that he is a first-class cricketer; a first- class oar; that as a half-back he is incomparable; that he swims like Captain Webb; is in the first rank of tennis players; that his half- volley at ping-pong has never been stopped. It doesn't tell me much about his brain power. The description of him as a "typical young Englishman" suggests more information on this particular point.

Crenshaw was so choked with his anger that for a moment he merely sputtered then he relapsed into furious silence, his dark eyes glowing with such hate that Harleston paused and asked a bit curiously: "Why do you take it so hard? It's all in the game and you've lost. You're a poor sort of sport, Crenshaw. You'd be better at ping-pong or croquet.

'There are twenty-six more quatrains, said Merton. The bard went on, 'A beautiful game, most delightful They play 'Ping-pong? murmured Merton. 'Hush! said Lady Bude. Miss Macrae turned to the poet. 'They play, sitting at the luxurious wine, Men and gentle women under a bush, Without sin, without crime. 'They are playing still, Blake added. 'Unbeheld, undisturbed!

The bull, being an aristocrat, gave warning of his intent to charge by shaking his head and bellowing. Then he charged. Cheyenne stooped for another stone, but Bartley had no intention of playing ping-pong with a roaring red avalanche. Bartley made for the side of the gulch and, catching hold of the bole of a juniper, drew himself up.

At last the people seized upon ping pong, and it became common. Then it was dropped like a dead fish. If some cyclonic disturbance had swept all the ping-pong balls into space, the disappearance could not have been more complete. Ping pong was put out of fashion. All this to the alien suggests something, a want of balance, a "youngness" perhaps.

There are also some mounted fish and some deer heads with incredible antlers, but the room is really used as a catch-all for all the sports things racquets, golf clubs, skis, ping-pong table, etc.... Anyway, Tracey brought out the box of anagrams, and we were all having a pretty good time when, at half past eight, the butler announced 'Mr. Dexter Sprague'!"

Afterwards, fearing to hurt the religious sentiments of the Highland servants by playing ping-pong on Sunday in the hall, she instructed him elsewhere, and clandestinely, in that pastime till the hour of tea arrived. Merton did not appear at the tea-table.

Dunlap played ping-pong in the trophy room after dinner until the other guests began to arrive, and I did not want them to find the room stuffy it was a warm night if any of the guests " "I see," Dundee interrupted. "Who, to your knowledge, was the last person to enter the trophy room last night, Mr. Miles?" "I was, except Sprague, of course, and I had no idea he'd gone there.

I verily believe there is no Gael even now who would not in his heart of hearts let drift by him the Elysiums of Virgil, Dante, and Milton, to grasp at the Moy Mell, the Apple Isle, of the unknown Irish pagan! And then to play sitting at the luxurious wine, 'Men and gentle women under a bush! 'It really cannot have been ping-pong that they played at, sitting. Bridge, more likely, said Merton.

The girl was craving for companionship, and she would plead with Thyrsis to accompany her, and subject himself to the agonies of "ping-pong" and croquet; and once or twice he submitted and so one might have beheld them, at a lawn-party, hotly pressed by half a dozen disputants, in a debate concerning the nature of American institutions, and the future of religion and the home!