River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-02-13

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good chop on the river.
"Calm's pond said he placidly.
We looked at each other and groaned in
wardly--the Gaths had always rowed on the
bay, about the same as sea water, and we had
rowed on a smooth inland surface; chop
and swell that would anihilate us would be
water over which they would skim like so
many Camillas DER the plain. But we went
off quietly, serenading the ianitor with "Weel
may the boatie rowp' as we went. Our new
boat had come, and waited for us, outFiggers
| and all, and we had taken her down to a spot
secure from observation, and given her
a thorough trial. She was beauty, and
from the mo.nent she took water answered to
our will not merely like a steed beneath its
rider, but as the breath does in ones nostrils
We came in after our breather on an easy jog
and there sat the janitor as we had left him
II say said be, with an air of keeping the
sad secret from our superiors, as ] came up
the slip--sI say, is that the best you can
do?n
"Best?n / answered. / can't say that it is.
We weren't on our mettle just now, you
know. j suppose that we could do a little
better on a squirt But perhaps that is fair
average"
''rm sorry for you,n said he, with really
compassionate condescension, not that we
were to be simply beaten, but that we were
to be beaten out of sight. But | had heard
| that in diplomacy it is sometimes what is not
said that counts, and there were certain
things to be read between the lines of my re-
ply.
Tie first thing that we looked for in the
morning was the water: it was as smooth as n
babY's cheek, and as rosy in the sunrise that
| stole over it between the dewey shadows of
the steep and woody shores. Latter in the
| forenoon some of the club went to the rail-
way station, happening to be with them, to
| meet certain friends of the Gaths who came
over foI the day, among the rest some won
do full yaff rfr1- lraAN
den would rather have in Jericho than on the
boathouse balcony to see the Gatl s come in
| best men. Kate and several OF her cou2pan-
ions were there too--all our acquaintauces
had made the affair their own, and there was
to be general half holiday in the town that
| afternoon.
took Hates hand moment, drawing her
a little apart, and she walked on with me
few PAGES. "'Vox populi vox Del, +" | said.
You see, Kate, even the dogs would cry
whipped if thev"-
"sVox, ct preterea nihil,' hundred times,
and don't see anything of the sort, more
over. II you can't whip those great
"Goliaths. Goliaths of GATH"
Your oars are just as much weavers' beams
as theirs"
tThey don't row with the sun in faces, Kate,
! as do And the stakes are more to me than
| of all the races ever rowed in Christendom. II
you mean never to speak to me-
"Oh, is it there? had quite forgotten"-
"What! you are not in earnest?"
''Neyer more so.n
sKate?'
"Wens"
"Give me something to row for, my girl"
and stopped short and looked down at her
| with the color rising on her lovely cheek.
| II Will give you a signal"
GLOW shall / know what ii means?n
"You will know
| " / believe you would send man into den
| of lions for your glove"
| "I never blamed the woman who did," SAID
| Kate, with a gay laugh all at once, because,
| as saw, her eyes were actually full of tears,
"and never thought well of the man in that
story
| So we parted. Hates tears-they augured
| i'll. Plying me-burial before death A sud
den flash of anger swept through me. If she
Y ould not give me something to row for, |
| would give her something to cry for, | would
win, or / would break a blood-vessel.
! went to my Office for the mail, on the way
back to quarters, and found it full of smoke
and Cheviots. "Tell us the truth, Geotfreys,'.
| they cried. THESE Gath people are up here
with fists full Of money, ready to wager thou
sands on their crew. Say, shall we take them
up?'
q can't advise you, boys" said "They
are mighty men. They row to win. | never
| saw anything SO handsome in my life as their
morning exercises. No-don't bet on us.
We won't disgrace the Cheviots. TIN be a
close thing, perhaps, but it's out of the ques-
| ton to suppose we can win from them"
THAT'S as it may be- cried Brand. But
| I've taken the offers of the Philistines to the
last dollar in my pocket And cheer greet
ed him that fairly slammed the door behind
me as left, and told what the rest meant to
| do; and of course it didn't tighten our hearts
any to know how they were going to tighten
/ their pockets.
| We'll. it was big crowd that lined the
shores and the building tops, that hung along
the banks in boats and skitfs when we went
down to the boat-house, and seemed only like
/ one vast animal with countless. eyes and
tongues. The balconies were filed with
| ladies, the stake boat was set, the tugs were
ready to follow us, and such tumult of eX-
element as there was in the boat-house moth
/ ing but menagerie just before dinner time
could rival; old Reed was kicking through the
panels OF his dressing-room door because he
had dropped his key, and young Smythe was
| taking his fist and smashing every pane in a
sash because he couldn't open a window;
| they were yelling here and running there
| the blood of all the Cheviots was up. In the
midst of he confusion, there, on heap of
| sail-cloth under one of the balconies, the
Gaths lay stretched at their ease like a nest of
young lions, and as looked them over l won
| dered if four as superb gladiators ever fought
| in Roman circus. They had q deuced pretty
uniform, too, snow white, with deep Grim
son handkerchief knotted on their heads.
"Come up here" cried, leaning OVERCOME
up and survey the course, and Sc the crowd,
and be introduced to some -"
"Thank you, Godfrey answered Converse.
Sits very clever of you, Godfrey, you know;
but we're very well as we are" And when
time sounded, and they rose aud strobe down
70 their boat, was not surprised at the shouts
of admiration that rent the air--in act, we
shouted ourselves.
| never want to endure another momenl
like that IN which | grasped my oar, waiting
for the start, after places were taken. l
glanced back at Harden and the rest and then
across to the Gaths-sueh white, set facesi
My pulse stopped for one second; there was a
dead silence; then word, dip, bound, a
YELL was all myself again, my heart beat at
my oars blade my soul went out of me at
every stroke, Harden and Devlin were one
with me little Jersey steered her to hair; my
detection had vanished like smoke. / meant
to win that race ar de We side by side,
we were creeping on, we gave them our wash,
the swift tremendous strokes seem to come
like our breaths; | heard nothing but one
continuous roar along the banks the whole OF
the way, / saw nothing but those fellows
laboring after; and as for them, they never
saw us again withoutIurning their heads over
their shoulders. As we rounded, they seemed
to be losing form a moment, although they
rallied; and as we entered the quarter, asked
the men If they had anything left to call for.
"a last BREATH" piped Jersey.
Let them have it" cried. And we came
in two lengths ahead, in the midst of deaf
enng tumult wild women and yelling men,
that might have walked the dead.
OF course we padded aside to let the Gaths
enter at the landing first. But as we came up
ourselves, eight great arms were reaching out
to seize me; powerless to struggle we were
carried up the slip By Gaths and Cheviots to-
gether. Just as passed under the balcony in
that triumph, looked up. There was Kate
leaning far over Upon my word for that in
slant til at one instant / had forgotten that
Kate existed And there she stood with the
Others framed in the sunset, her disordered
hair gilded like nimbus, laughing, crying,
flushed, lovely and half divinel AS her eye
caught mine, she extended her hand impetu-
ously, kissed the spray of flowers she held,
and tossed it down to me. II was a spray of
orange flowers Hdfper's Weekly.
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find the Jews in Germany in the most OPP
pressed condition; If it was no longer
lawful to slay and plumber them :"
naoiorean Del qloridns, yet they were on The
other hand subjected "by State and JUS
tee" to every conceivable restriction; al
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