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Afternoon. - 2.30. Meeting of the Athletic Association. 3. Cricket-match resumed. 7. Tub-race. 7.30. Music in the great school-room...
Before the audience had ceased applauding this jeu d'esprit the band struck up "Old Dog Tray," and Diogenes, the famous prestidigitateur, entered the ring with his magic Tub...
...sleight-of-hand operations which this gentleman performed were, to say the least, wonderful. At his bidding the Tub transformed itself into a two-story French-roofed dwelling-house, with all the modern improvements, furnished most elegantly from top to bottom, while through the windows Diogenes himself could be seen, playing ball-pool upon the magnificent billiard-table which graced the second-story front-room...
This marvellous transformation scene was loudly applauded; Diogenes, however, with a cynical smile refused an encore, and retired from the ring, rolling the Tub before him. A jocose argument between Cebes and Socrates followed in regard to the probability of possibility, in which Cebes was thoroughly discomfited, for Socrates convicted him of reasoning in a circle, on the ground that he was arguing in a ring...
...write to you again, in relation to the "trial eights," an important feature of our boating-system. Till then, I can only say, "Tub, if you wish good oars...