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To: WesternPacific
How is this reason (which is their reason) to judge a scholar’s worth,
By casting a ball at three straight sticks and defending the same with a fourth?
But this they do (which is doubtless a spell) and other matters more strange,
Until, by the operation of years, the hearts of their scholars change:

From Kitchener's School by Rudyard Kipling

8 posted on 05/15/2007 6:02:55 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive

Kipling is interesting. Never could understand that game until I spent some time down under. I’m not sure I really understood it but I did get caught up in the playoff fever.


10 posted on 05/15/2007 6:07:53 AM PDT by WesternPacific
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