A Jolly FellowshipC. Scribner's sons, 1880 - 298 páginas |
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Página 25 - Rectus, and to have a good time with him, as two old school- fellows might easily have, even if one did happen to be two years older than the other. But that would not be earning my salary. After a good deal of thought, I came to the conclusion that I would let things go on as they would, for a while, giving Rectus a good deal of rope; but the moment he began to show signs of insubordination, I would march right on him, and quell him with an iron hand. After that, all would be plain sailing, and...
Página 36 - There is a little public square at nearly every corner, and one of the wide streets has a double row of big trees running right down the middle...
Página 29 - He inquired how fast we were going, and then he worked the whole thing out, from Sandy Hook to Savannah, marking on the map the hours at which he ought to be at such and such a place. He tried his best to get his map of the course all right, and made a good many alterations, so that we were off Cape Charles several times in the course of the day. Rectus had never been very good at calculations, and I was glad to see that he was beginning to take an interest in such things. The next morning, just...