We pointed out to the Olympic Committee that it would not be very hard to get a team of Base Ball players picked out from the American athletes taking part in the contests, but as they would not be prepared for Base Ball, suits and other needed articles had to be provided for.

Very likely the American boys were somewhat disappointed in not being able to play between themselves, as anticipated, and perhaps I should not have pushed our game ahead, but as long as there was a Base Ball team in Sweden, it would have been strange if it had not played, and it gave our boys a chance to see how the game should be played, and they certainly did take it in.

From this draw a moral, you fellows who rule: Sink personal spite when you act for the school; And whatever your notions of prefects may be, Let's have the right men in the team at Ronleigh.

They hitched a team to a heavy wagon, in record time, and then began to load with whatever was available for fighting fire.

Last year in the GUIDE it was the pleasure of the editor to call attention to the fact that the Japanese had so thoroughly grasped Base Ball that they were bent on some day playing an American team for the international championship.

There'll be an awful row, and the doctor'll keep the team from going.

I send you herewith a clipping from a local paper describing the game, and also a picture of the two teams with myself and the umpire included.

Some of them became ill, and the manager was put to his wits end to get a team on the field which should make a good showing.

Mr. Stevens knows a lot about Base Ball, which is of even greater importance in the game, and is not afraid to swing any venture that will put with fairness a championship team into the big city.

Thurston followed up his withdrawal from the football team by a number of other actions which clearly showed a determination to spend what was known to be his last term at Ronleigh in living at open enmity with those who had once been his friends and associates.

But I'm sorry he lost the team through me.

Two more wickets were taken; but Partridge seemed to have fairly got his eye in, and gave the home team as much leather-hunting as Oaks had provided for the visitors.

If it was near the hour of noon, they would stop their teams under the shady elms and ask him to come out and read to them.

" "And got a team like that 'n outside, and not even goin' to Minóok?" "Guess not!"

Many a time when he had gone quietly to the stable and taken out his team without as much as causing a dog to bark, removing his sleigh bells to further cover his movements, and stealing out of town like an absconding bank-teller, to make a call, returning the same way, still under cover of night, and flattering himself that he had fooled her this time, she would be waiting for him, and timed her call to the exact minute.

Team after team of little yellow and gray Eskimo dogs, as quick with their fangs as were their black and swift-running masters with their hands and feet, met the much larger and dark-colored Malemutes from the Athabasca.

In the first game against a weaker team than Harvard, Merriwell was tried in the box and pitched a superb game, which Yale won in a walk.

The driver of the wagon swung his lumbering team about with all the strength of his arms, and back again came the six horses, galloping now.

When he had finished he fastened an extra horse outside the shafts of the carts and two men drove the teams across the field.

The wastes are playgrounds (and let us try to keep them such for the children's children who will inherit no other sort of demesne); the grasses and reeds nod to each other over the river, but we have cut a canal close by; the very heights laugh with corn in August or lift the plough-team against the sky in September.

"Say," he observed, "I'll go you two to one that Merriwell is on the 'Varsity team before the end of next season.

A close watch was kept on him, and one morning he was seen to drive down to the west side of the bridge and tie his team behind a house, where he thought they would be safe until he returned.

Didn't I tell you, Kaviak, he drove his reindeer team over the roofs?" "Did you hear any dogs go by in the night?" "I didn't; Nicholas brought it, I s'pose, and was told to cache it up there.

"No," said the man; "don't you recollect, so long ago, helping a man with a team up the hill by the side of your house?"

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEIR MYTHS A KORAK GIRL KORAK DOGS SACRIFICED TO PROPITIATE THE SPIRITS OF EVIL A RACE OF WANDERING KORAK REINDEER TEAMS From a painting by George A. Frost. HOUR-GLASS HOUSES OF THE SETTLED KORAKS From a model in The American Museum of Natural History.