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...they got no shame?" reads a sign on the blackboard in the second floor room in Mass Hall. The sign is red chalk, and against the slate smooth surface of the blackboard resembles a question written in dried blood, a dead man's last words...
That experience would not have seemed at all remarkable to members of the international fraternity of hobos, who have worked out 40 or 50 graphic hints that they chalk up on fences or walls to guide those who come after them. The cat, for example, conveys the welcome news that a "kind lady lives here," while the canine image warns of a "vicious dog here." Other signs are a cross ("religious talk gets free meal"), two intersecting circles ("police here frown on hobos"), two wavy lines supported by a pillar and sheltering a small circle ("you can sleep in hayloft...
WINCHESTER is a central city in British history. Located about 64 miles WSW of London, on the banks of the River Itchen, Winchester was the site of early permanent inhabitation. The chalk downs above the present city are believed to have been first occupied in the Iron Age, perhaps in the first century...
Friendships among diggers were quick to form. The community was mostly young, between the ages of 16 and 35, and abounded in good fellowship. Diggers made friends to go drinking with in one of Winchester's 72 pubs, to play soccer with, or to climb the chalk downs above Itchen and watch the sun set (or rise). Pleasures were few and primitive--cigarettes and cider were the staples of digger life. Romance was always available, although usually tenuous, but a handful of digger marriages, generally between male site supervisors and female diggers, have graced the dig's past...
...Brian Macintosh cross-checked Havern, touching off a brawl that resulted in six penalites, and two shattered frames of plexiglass when overzealous Princeton supporters crashed onto the ice from the stands. The majority of the Crimson squad remained on the bench throughout the scuffle, and returned minutes later to chalk up another power play goal, with Doug Elliott firing in a set-up from the point...