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Some experiments were recently tried by O'Rouke and White of the Buffalo club with the new catcher's protection, which is a flat rubber case, filled up with air and worn over the chest and abdomen. O'Rouke put the protector on and claims that he could not fell a ball thrown by White at a distance of ten feet...
...next opened her eyes it was broad day. The fire was out, and looking through the branches that formed her door, she could see the brook, rippling silver-bright in the morning sun. She remembered her situation with a smile and a blush; and went out to find her protector...
...Ibex crouched low behind the chandelier, adjusted his lung-protector, and replied, while a tear coursed down his cheek, "Easy, please, and a little at a time...
...anticipate any such fatality, our censure is excusable." Poor fellow, we really pity you! The unlucky author of "Specimen Bricks" next claims his attention: "We cannot say the idiot who is responsible for the above is a brick. This article may occasionally be found embedded in his cranial protector, - that is, if there be any cranium requiring protection." It is fortunate that Harvard is so distant from Niagara, or we really should fear personal violence from this would-be monk, who apparently believes that women have no business in the world. After all, in spite of the frequent recurrence...
...pamphlets; deciding on the characters and measures of an administration, and dictating the policy of his country. In almost all families of this class the mother and her daughters lead a life of meritorious diligence and economy, while the husband is merely a bond of union and a legal protector of the household. Accordingly he is paid and supported, not for his services, but for his presence..... He is a being creeping along the limits of animated and unanimated existence, and serving, like an oyster, as a middle link between plants and animals." I board at Memorial Hall; will...