Identifier: outing29newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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be a commendable proceedingif his beloved son would devote certainregular hours of the short vacation to ageneral polishing up in Greek. The be-loved son thinks he sees himself buck-ing out of term-time, he does ! Christmas recess came on. The lodgeon Mendota court joined the neighbor-ing chapter-houses in proclaiming thatsilence which is said by long-sufferingresidents of the classic neighborhoodto be actually audible during vacationtime. Peg Woffington was anchored inthe offing. A few days existence under the neworder of things saw the library convert-ed into a sort of Bohemian paradise. In this retreat the three underclass-men whiled away such hours as werenot spent aboard Peg Woffington. Herethe trio were to be found on the morn-ing of the fifth day. Hear the wind, cried White. Wont the dainty Peggy go up in theair to-day ! How dark it grows, said Mayne,looking across the lake. And what awind ! I hope it wont snow. Oh, it cant snow, said Dorey. In half an hour they were out on the
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Painted for Outing by Henry B. Snell. GOT TO TAKE IT NOW. (/. s&.) OUT TNG FOR DECEMBER. lake making ready the Peg Woffington.The wind came howling out from abank of copper-colored clouds. It wascold, and keen, and biting. The sunhad a ring. Things had a dirty, yellowlight on them. The sail flapped andcreaked in the gale as they stood theyacht against it. Dorey crawled • in. Colonel wrenched on the tiller.Mayne caught the plank as she movedaway, and came back into the box. Well wish we had some of the fel-lows out on the runner-plank to-day,shouted Dorey, pressing his cap downover his ears. Wed better stop andreef as it is, Dood. Shell lift clear offthe ice when we get out towards thePoint and into the full sweep of this. I can tell you one thing, Colonel shouted, and that is that we dont goout beyond the Point to jump that crackto-day. We were only too lucky tomake it yesterday where it was onlythree feet wide. It will spread in thiswind so we can never jump it. Gee !But we are

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