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"Oh, why didn't I think of that before?" she said in an extremity of self-reproach. She walked straight to the apoplectic gentleman, followed by the unhappy pair of scientific punters. "Callow Girl is nine to one, isn't it?" The apoplectic gentleman smiled winningly. "To you, missie." Miranda laughed. "I'll have ten pounds on it," she said, and did not hear the gasp of her husband behind her.
It must be borne in mind that the return journey occupies the punters three or four times the duration of the journey downstream. Each stage is an entire day's work, therefore, for which the tariff alone is insufficient remuneration. Our new boatmen are the brothers Montginoux young men, very pleasant, very intelligent, and exceedingly skilful in their business.
In 1898, when he went to Bucknell, he was immediately put at fullback and played there three years. Fred Crolius says of him: "Of all the long distance punters with hard kicks to handle, Percy Haughton and Christy Mathewson stand out in his memory. Mathewson had the leg power to turn his spiral over.
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