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Updated: June 18, 2025
Captain Miller, at left end, was spectacular under punts and played his usual hard, steady game. Innes at centre was impregnable until the final period. Williams, if a trifle weaker than his opponent, made up for it by scoring the three points for his side. Benson, at right end, was less successful than Captain Miller, but was good on the defence.
Along the sides of this garden on the gravel-walk loll go-to-sleep straw chairs, with little wicker tables within reach of your hand for B.& S., or tea and toast, or a pint in a mug, and down at the water's edge seafaring men like Fin and me find a boathouse with half a score of punts, skiffs, and rowboats, together with a steam-launch with fires banked ready for instant service.
The line held and I rushed in, and grabbed the ball, but before I got very far the Referee blew his whistle, and after I had run across the goal line I realized that the touchdown was not going to be allowed. "Lew Palmer and I were tried at end simply to endeavor to provide a defense against the return runs of de Saulles on punts.
If you wait long enough when launching, you can get a smooth, or a comparatively smooth, sea. I have sometimes waited ten minutes and then the command is given 'Let her go, and the boat is hurled into the racing curl of some green sea. Sometimes the sea is too heavy for landing, and the galley punts lie off skimming about for hours.
For example the signal given is "24-E-N-72-X." The figures 24 and 72 mean nothing, nor does the "X." The signal says "E will take the ball and go through N," or right half-back through right guard. Any number of other plays can be denoted by letters or numbers, for example all punts by figures which are a multiple of ten, as 10-20, 150-300, and so on.
And every day in winter they hover off Deal in their splendid galley punts, rightly called 'knock-toes, for the poor fellows' hands and feet are often semi-frozen, to take a pilot out of some outward-bound steamer going at the rate of ten or fifteen knots an hour.
At Shipping Port, one of these suburbs, I saw the women and children clustering in the up-stairs room, while the men were going about in punts and wherries, collecting drift-wood from the river for their winter's firing. In some places bedding and furniture had been brought over to the high ground, and the women were sitting, guarding their little property.
"We are all here." "Dismount. Now for the punts." The robbers dismounted. "No need to tether the horses, they cannot get away anywhere. One man may remain here to guard them. Who wishes to stay?" All were silent. "Some one must guard the horses, lest the wolves attack them while we are away."
The Thacher game was not especially interesting. Thacher faced Brimfield with a light team, and, unable to gain consistently through the line, reverted to kicking. This gave the visiting backs some good practice in the handling of punts but gained the home team little advantage.
"Let the boy come, wife," said the squire quietly; "I'll take care of him." "Yes, and I'll take care of father," cried Dick, rushing at his mother to give her a sounding kiss, and with a sigh she gave way, and followed the party down to the water's edge. There was still a furious current running on the far side of the Toft, as, well provided with lanterns, the two punts pushed off.
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