Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sent word that sickness or family affairs would prevent their playing next day. All that could be done was to get together all the ball-players then in Cambridge, - it was vacation, - and to start with this scrub nine. To strengthen our side, the Worcesters willingly agreed to let us have George Wright, and even then we had to put in right field a Harvard student living in Worcester, who was entirely out of practice. In the Boston game, which also was played during vacation, Macullar, a professional, took the place of Mr. Winsor, as the latter was so unwell...
...Let us away ere yet we are surprised...
...let me die, for death indeed is sweet...
...let me die a martyr. So, lead...
...knew I could n't, so I replied nothing, and she went on. "S'pose you can read French, or think you can. I like that too. Got a French book here that's jest lovely." "Let me see it," said I, hopefully. It was the "Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau"! I had had enough; I said I had an engagement to dinner, and left, while she called after me, "Come round again some afternoon, - I'm' most always here fine days, - and we might have a row on the lake." I accepted the invitation" with pleasure," and departed from...