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Chapter 16 In the Tennis-court
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Athletic sports were in high favour at Plumfield; and the river wherethe old punt used to wabble about with a cargo1 of small boys, or echoto the shrill2 screams of little girls trying to get lilies, now wasalive with boats of all kinds, from the slender wherry to the trimpleasure-craft, gay with cushions, awnings3, and fluttering pennons.
Everyone rowed, and the girls as well as the youths had their races,and developed their muscles in the most scientific manner. The large,level meadow near the old willow4 was now the college playground, andhere baseball battles raged with fury, varied5 by football, leaping,and kindred sports fitted to split the fingers, break the ribs7, andstrain the backs of the too ambitious participants. The gentlerpastimes of the damsels were at a safe distance from this Champ deMars; croquet mallets clicked under the elms that fringed the field,rackets rose and fell energetically in several tennis-courts, andgates of different heights were handy to practise the graceful8 boundby which every girl expected to save her life some day when the madbull, which was always coming but never seemed to arrive, should bebellowing at her heels.
One of these tennis grounds was called 'Jo's Court', and here thelittle lady ruled like a queen; for she was fond of the game, andbeing bent9 on developing her small self to the highest degree ofperfection, she was to be found at every leisure moment with somevictim hard at it. On a certain pleasant Saturday afternoon she hadbeen playing with Bess and beating her; for, though more graceful,the Princess was less active than her cousin, and cultivated herroses by quieter methods.
'Oh dear! you are tired, and every blessed boy is at that stupidbaseball match. 'What shall I do?' sighed Josie, pushing back thegreat red hat she wore, and gazing sadly round her for more worlds toconquer.
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