eup and the score at the end. The writer's originality
of expression and his happy choice of individual incidents also add
greatly to the interest of the story. The lead, for instance, is
unusually good.

=238. Football.=--The following is a typical football story:

| =ARMY DEFEATS NAVY= |
| |
|It was just as the gray cloaked lads from West Point|
|chanted in lugubrious measure before the game: |
| |
| Go-oo-od Night, Nayvee! |
| Go-oo-od Night, Navy! |
| Go-oo-od Night--Na-ay-ve-ee! |
| The Army wins to-day! |
| |
|They put into the chorus all the pathos, all the |
|long-sustained notes, all the tonsorial-parlor |
|chords of which it is capable, and those, as you |
|know, are many. |
| |
|And the Army boys, sitting in a fog which in hue |
|just about matched their capes and caps, called the |
|turn correctly with their vocal prediction. |
| |
|It was "Good Night, Navy!" to the tune of 14 points |
|to 0. |
| |
|The youngsters from the west bank of the Upper |
|Hudson were triumphant in their twentieth annual |
|battle with the midshipmen from Annapolis by two |
|touchdowns and their concomitant goals, one in the |
|first period of play, the other in the third. The |
|count of games now stands ten for the Army, nine for|
|the Navy, and one tie. |
| |
|President Wilson, in a topper that got wet, and with|
|a beaming face that was sprinkled with mist and |
|raindrops, watched the fight and stayed until the |
|final wild whoop from the last departing cadet had |
|sounded through the semi-darkness that fell upon the|
|Polo Grounds along toward 4:30 p.m. |
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