Word: waters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Mile after mile I scrambled or crawled in the rain through bushes and briars without "getting a bite." I fell into the brook - three feet of muddy water - thereby spoiling my temper and my trousers. I drew out a damp cigarette to take refuge in smoke and philosophy; but "matches are made in Heaven," and I was no farther than purgatory, so I did not smoke just then. On the road I found a small snub-nosed boy with his basket full of fine trout. The little wretch had fished the brook just a hundred yards ahead...
Professor. Oh, me no fixee that much. No more slingee water on paddies...
...Fall Class Races will probably be rowed in barges, instead of in shells, in order to insure a race in spite of rough water...
COMPLAINT is made that no lateral shower-baths have been provided in the Gymnasium, and that nothing has been done to regulate the temperature of the water...
After you have seen him and laid him out, * all that remains for you is pleasant and profitable. You had better go to that amusing apothecary, Hubbard, whose droll advertisements you have read in the Lampoon, and take a glass of plain soda-water; it is more exciting than milk, and not so strong as ginger ale, and you may take it without fear of inconvenience. If you have any practice in such things, you may take a mild cigarette (those used for catarrh are very innocent), and it may induce the careless outsider to take you for a Sophomore...