Word: bird
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last regular meeting of the club will be held at Watertown this afternoon. The clay-bird cup will be awarded to the member who has won the greatest number of competitions up to and including the present date. In case of a tie, the competitors will shoot the tie off at strings of five birds, until one drops out. Members will take the 2 o'clock...
...clay-bird cup went to Mr. Slocum for the second time...
MILE RUN.C.S. Bird, '77, 5m. 41 3-4s., October 24, 1874; A. T. Lowell, '77, 5m. 14s, May 22, 1875; A. T. Lowell, '77, 5m. 2 1-2s., Nov. 6, 1875; C. S. Hanks, ;'79, 5m. 2 1-2s., May 24, 1878; J. S. Bell, '81, 4m. 56s., May 22, 1879; A. Thorndike, '81, 4m. 50 1-8s., May 19, 1880; J. S. Bell, '81, 4m. 44 3-4s., May 22, 1880; A. Thorndike, '81, 4m. 42 7 8s., May 28, 1880; G. B. Morrison, '83; 4m. 39s., May 20, 1882; G. B. Morrison...
...MILE RUN.C. A. Bird, '77, 60s., May 22, 1875; H. C. Dunham, '77, 59s., Nov. 6, 1875; H.C. Dunham, '77, 58s., June 9, 1875; T. H. Simmons, '80, 58s., May 19, 1877; Robert Bacon, '80, 54s., May 24, 1878; E. J. Wendell, '82, 53 1-2s., May 22, 1880; W. H. Goodwin...
Without the slightest wish to be officious in any way, we tender our sincere congratulations to the fair unknown, that the author of the verse is not a "little bird," and has not "two little wings," nor three, nor four little wings either as some birds apparently have, and that "it cannot be." It is possible that we mistake the poet's meaning in this verse, but really, we have not been able to discover any, and so had to invent one for ourselves...