" Directly after dinner every one commenced "packing up;" which term might have been supposed to include every form of skylarking which the heart of the small boy could devise, from racing round the quadrangle, arrayed in one of Bibbs's night-shirts, to playing football in the gymnasium, North versus South, with the remains of an old mortar-board.

" The third day, when he had kicked that football down the field, and, later, had made the acquaintance of Outfield West, seemed now to have been the turning point from gloom to sunshine.

Reading history bears about the same relation to reading mild love stories and overdrawn adventures that football or skating bears to stringing beads.

When I behold a football to and fro, Urged by a throng of players equally, Methinks I see, resembled in that show, This round earth poised in the vacant sky.

During the winter months you will find him constantly booting the football with merry shouts, and in the summer the tennis racket is seldom out of his hand.

I've bought Jack a football, and he can take it out on the tennis-court and play with it all day, with intervals for meals.

The guards and tackles are throwing themselves on to the ground and clutching rolling footballs in a way that draws a shudder of alarm from the feminine observer.

The talk was of a general character for a while, embracing football and other college sports, and Songbird was disappointed.

Not a breath of wind stirred the little flag that drooped from the mizzen-peak, and the clamorous, ceaseless-cries of sea-birds, added to the merry shouts and laughter of the men as they followed the restless football, rendered the whole a scene of life, as it was emphatically one of beauty.

Since the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded both football and hurling have prospered exceedingly.

The grounds were spacious enough to furnish not only football and baseball fields and tennis-courts, but meadows where wild flowers grew in the spring, and a little lake where the ice grew in the winter.

Perhaps if I gave up football I might get higher marks in recitations, but I'd not feel so well, and it's possible that I'd only get lower marks.

The Scotsmen then started the bagpipes, and we had a rare old jollification, which included football, in which the Germans took part.

He has not asked me to see him once this term," thought Eric, sadly; but a shout of pleasure greeted him directly he joined the football in the play-ground, and, half consoled, he hoped Mr. Rose had heard it, and understood that was meant for the boy whom he had just been rebuking.

I like football much better than cricket.

Still, for that great act we speak of Isaacs gratefully and remember him kindly; and he forges on, hoping to meet the football somewhere again.

Had you gone on across the intervening turf until the lengthened shadow of the nearest goal post was reached you would have seen first a squada veritable awkward squadarranged in a ragged circle and passing a football with much mishandling and many fumbles.

I mean-unnaturallystupid, and who, should they attempt to sandwich football or baseball into their school life, would simply make a mess of both study and recreation.

"If he's going to break himself in pieces he'd better stop football.

Brother Vincent teaches them football and baseball, and plays with them and works with them.

Yes, generally speaking, the boy who comes to school to study can afford to play football, train for football, and think football, because instead of interfering with his studies it really helps him with them.

At the close of the first session of the last day, I threw a football to my enemies, who, not suspecting my trick, rushed off, kicking it down the street, and when they returned in the afternoon to take vengeance upon me for my unprecedented rule over them, I was in the "hub of the universe."

I thought of crouching in his path and adopting football tacticstackling him low as soon as he stumbled upon me.

" "Wot a jolly game football is, ain't it?" said Davie seating himself on a hummock, and still panting hard.

We have avoided football this season especially to keep clear of accidents, but on Friday afternoon a match was got up for the cinematograph and Debenham developed a football knee (an old hurt, I have since learnt, or he should not have played).