Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 128
t ofevery Rugbeian. The runs are necessarily madeevery year over the same ground, and in whicheverdirection the boys go, they must cross plowed fieldsor green meadows, with sheep scattering to every side; they must leap over hedges and brooks, mountlittle hills and jump ditches. And fortunate… … A RlGBY CLASS-KOOM. well described in the following lines, a few of manywritten about the sport: ! Jumping ditches,Scrambling hedges,Crossing overSwampy sedges;Over meadow,Swamp or fallow,Sometimes in theMud we wallow; Now on road,Now on grass,Through a spinney Then we pass,First a farm,Then a…
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