Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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I heard Lyon's door slam. I also heard hasty footsteps down the stairs. I looked on the table. There were his hat and cane, but where was the money? I rushed over to Lyon's room, and pounded on the door. He shouted out, "Who's there?"
I certainly did remember the name of Rumvill, but I could n't recollect that we had been exactly brothers there. In fact, I think I remember his lifting me up by the ears one recess; and he got licked for it, too, the cowardly dog. But still I asked...
So he was pacified, and talked very agreeably on college subjects, most especially on sporting matters, and I joined in as well as I could. I had him on the new University shells, for he had n't been down to the boat-house since they came, but he discussed...
"Well," said he, "I was the only man that went down that did n't get cleaned out. And I bet heavily, too."
"No, no," he interrupted; "I ain't that sort. What I did was to take four or five pools on Yale before I left here; they were twenty-nine to six, you know, before the game. Then I went down to New Haven and bet the rest of my pile...