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Boston is admittedly a good sports town. For years the city has supported with unfailing faith and loyalty two of the lowliest baseball teams which the major leagues have every held over a long period of time. There is no place in America that goes wilder over hockey Football games and boxing matches draw crowds more enthusiastic than those of larger cities, and the annual fixtures in tennis, golf, and track and field are noted on every social calendar...
...horror of the jungle haunts the fevered dreams Bonsel records, but he tells of waking hours filled with the serene beauty of India and the calm philosophy of its lowliest inhabitant...
...were offered me, I was actuated by a purpose of establishing a centre of learning and refinement, - a republic after Plato's own heart, - and I decided to take the post-office of Skunk's Misery, feeling assured that a man of culture and a philosopher could make the lowliest position honorable and useful. I have not been disappointed. The post-office is near the bar-room of the village tavern. I there delivered the letters alternately with short but pithy essays on philosophic and classical subjects. At first I translated these effusions into the "flash" dialect peculiar to these...