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It was there that the traditional sports of the road began. A drag, with a band of exquisites armed with pea-shooters, peppering on costers who were getting angry, and threatening to drive over the leaders. A brake with two poles erected, and hanging on a string quite a line of miniature chamber-pots. A horse, with his fore-legs clothed in a pair of lady's drawers.
"If it is impervious to the cold of these heights; if it is so strong that it is impervious to the tremendous pressure inside the globe which must be kept at a certain degree to maintain human life what can we do? We tried bullets. We might as well have used peas and pea-shooters. If our friends try bombs they will still be unsuccessful.
I personally attended only two botany lectures during the whole course. At the first some practical joker had spilled a solution of carbon bisulphide all over the professor's platform, and the smell was so intolerable that the lecture was prorogued. At the second, some wag let loose a couple of pigeons, whereupon every one started either to capture them or stir them up with pea-shooters.
'Not at home, but men say what they like at school, and the 'bus was scrumptious and splendiferous! 'I'm sure it wasn't, said Valetta; 'I can't bear being boxed up with horrid rude boys. 'Because you are only a girl! 'Now, Gill, they shot with 'Val, if you tell 'Telling Gill isn't telling. Is it, Gill? She assented. 'They did, Gill. They shot at us with pea-shooters, sighed the girl.
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