Word: ups
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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You know how blind the gate to the Dilly's Avenue is. Well, Fred - he was driving - never can remember when he gets to it. So, as we came up the road at a pretty sharp pace, for this was our last point, I heard Mary cry, "Left, Fred, left...
Fred was up in an instant, and had the horses by the heads. They, poor fellows, were used to him as a charioteer, and were not surprised. And, amid screams of laughter, all the passengers rose from their deep bed of snow. All? No. Where is Ethel? She does not...
Then Harry came up and said, -
"Stuff!" she interrupted, "the elective system is a failure. You keep boys steadily at school from the time they are big enough to run alone, pick out their studies for them without consulting their own wishes, give them no chance to learn anything outside of books, treat them as mere...
I was terrified, for the last time the beast was down, - by the way, he never lay down of his own accord, - they had to use another horse to pull him up again. The prospect looked gloomy, but I unharnessed him, and with my aunt's help drew the carriage...