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They said each fruit made two vessels, but the upper half was always best and used for long salt-water journeys, the lower piece being but for punting or fishing on their lakes.
'Sorry to find you in this den, Maulevrier, said Lord Hartfield. 'Haven't touched a card. Haven't done half an hour's punting this season. But it's a kind of habit with me to wander in here now and then. I know so many of the members. One poor devil lost nine thousand one night last week. Bather rough upon him, wasn't it? All ready money at this shop, don't you know.
The persons thus appealed to entered into the matter with all the ardor of just men, whose curiosity as well as justice is inflamed. A set of old, rusty drags was found on the premises; and men went punting up and down the mere, and dragged it.
Cherry Valley attempted to run the ends and succeeded now and then, punting only on fourth down when everything else had failed. After a dozen plays Brimfield had gained half the distance to the Red's goal without having put her new backfield to the test.
"All the better for me," answered Canano; "for though your punting is unlucky, you don't leave off till you have won my money. But that's only my joke; try again, and I protest I would see you win half my fortune gladly." Count Canano had a ring on his finger with a stone not unlike one of mine; it had cost him two thousand sequins, while mine was worth three thousand.
The "Maroon" stands rose en masse and a torrent of cheers swept over the field as they gave the team a greeting that must have "warmed the cockles of their heart." The boys peeled off their jerseys and commenced punting and falling on the ball. They kept this up for ten minutes and then gave way to their rivals. Out from the other side of the field scampered the Blues.
Other guesses have been made since as to its circumference, ranging between seventy and one hundred miles. It is shallow, for I subsequently saw a native punting his canoe over seven or eight miles of the northeast end; it can never therefore be of much value as a commercial highway.
This scull he puts down through the water till it touches the bed of the ocean, and then he shoves. "Deep-sea punting" would be the technical term for the method, we presume. In this way do they toil or rather, to speak correctly, does the one man toil through the awful night, until with joy they see before them the light-house rocks. The light-house keeper comes out with a lantern.
The necessities of punting, which kept him far from her, and demanded much adroit labour, gradually restored his self-respect, and he was able to look the uncelebrated oarsmen they met in the eyes, except when they were accompanied by their parents and sisters, which subtly made him feel uncomfortable again.
"Aquatic activities, such as rowing, punting, messing about with a boat-hook, tying up, buzzing about in motor launches, fouling other people's boats, are merely the stage business of the drama. The ruling interests of this place are love largely illicit and persistent drinking.... Don't you think the bridge charming from here?" "I shouldn't have thought drinking," said Dr.
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