It grows fainter and fainter and is finally lost, and then comes along a new horde of Crimson Indians taking up the song.

It was a great victory for a great team. Boston's head aches from the noise and the revelry.

SUBJECTS FOR THEMES AND TALKS

Our football team (you may
in this and the following ex-
ercises substitute any other
athletic sport)

A good football player
A clever play

A championship game
Celebrating a victory
Training

A game we lost
Cheer leaders

The crowd at a game
Selling tickets

A bad day for a game
Our school songs
Our athletic field
Athletics in our school
Too much athletics
Team play

OUTLINE

Make an outline on "Raising Money for Athletics."

DISCUSSION

Resolved, That football is a more interesting game to watch than baseball.

Resolved, That football is of more benefit to the player than baseball.

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of storehouse for the pool above, where the trout foraged in the early and the late twilight, and where, if you hooked a redfin delicately on a fine leader and dropped it in from the crotch of an overhanging tree, you might sometimes catch a big one.

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Early one morning, while I was sitting in the tree, a kingfisher swept up the river and disappeared under the opposite bank. He had a nest in there, so cunningly hidden under an overhanging root that till then I had not discovered it, though I had fished the pool and seen the 10 kingfishers clattering about many times. They were unusually noisy when I was near, and flew upstream over the trout pool with a long, rattling call again and again— a ruse, no doubt, to make me think that their nest was somewhere far above.

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I watched the nest closely after that, in the intervals when I was not fishing, and learned many things to fill one with wonder and respect for this unknown, clattering outcast of the wilderness rivers. He has devotion for his mate and feeds her most gallantly while she is brood- 20 ing. He has courage, plenty of it. One day, under my very eyes, he drove off a mink and almost killed the savage creature. He has well-defined fishing regulations and enforces them rigorously, never going beyond his limits and permitting no poaching on his own minnow pools. 25 He also has fishing lore enough in his frowsy head-if one could get it out-to make Izaak Walton's discourse like a child's babble. Whether the wind be south or northeast, whether the day be dull or bright, he knows exactly where the little fish will be found and how to 30 catch them.

When the young birds came the most interesting bit of Koskomenos's life was manifest. One morning as I sat