Excerpt: ...hurt; but has only broken - his glasses; "it ain't your fault, Giglamps, old feller! it's the clumsiness of the hack. He tossed you up, and couldn't catch you again!" And so our hero rides back to Oxford. But, before the Term has ended, he has become more accustomed to Oxford hacks, and has made himself acquainted with the respective merits of the stables of Messrs. Symonds, Tollitt, and Pigg; and has, moreover, ridden with the drag, and, in this way, hunted the fabled foxes of Bagley Wood, and Whichwood Forest. ...
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Excerpt: ...hurt; but has only broken - his glasses; "it ain't your fault, Giglamps, old feller! it's the clumsiness of the hack. He tossed you up, and couldn't catch you again!" And so our hero rides back to Oxford. But, before the Term has ended, he has become more accustomed to Oxford hacks, and has made himself acquainted with the respective merits of the stables of Messrs. Symonds, Tollitt, and Pigg; and has, moreover, ridden with the drag, and, in this way, hunted the fabled foxes of Bagley Wood, and Whichwood Forest. CHAPTER VI. MR. VERDANT GREEN FEATHERS HIS OARS WITH SKILL AND DEXTERITY. NOVEMBER is not always the month of fog and mist and dulness. Oftentimes there are brilliant exceptions to that generally-received rule of depressing weather which, in this month (according to our lively neighbours), induces the natives of our English metropolis to leap in crowds from the Bridge of Waterloo. There are in November, days of calm beauty, which are peculiar to that month - that kind of calm beauty which is so often seen as the herald of decay. But, whatever weather the month may bring to Oxford, it never brings gloom or despondency to Oxford men. They are a happily constituted set of beings, and can always create their own amusements; they crown Minerva with flowers without 168 ADVENTURES OF MR. VERDANT GREEN heeding her influenza, and never seem to think that the rosy-bosomed Hours may be laid up with bronchitis. Winter and summer appear to be pretty much the same to them: reading and recreation go hand-in-hand all the year round; and, among other pleasures, that of boating finds as many votaries in cold November, as it did in sunny June - indeed, the chillness of VG168.JPG the air, in the former month, gives zest to an amusement which degenerates to hard labour in the dog-days. The classic Isis in the month of November, therefore, whenever the weather is anything like favourable, presents an animated scene. Eight-oars pass along, the measured pull of...
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NO DATE. James Blackwood. Book-Good, spine loose. Pictorial gilt cover. 7.5x5. 338pp. Numerous line drawings by author. The adventures of an Oxford undergraduate with his relatives and antecedents.
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Blackwood, London nd. 195th. thousand, ca.1880s? illustr. by author. 12mo. cloth, 271pp. + ads, many drawings, partly cracked at 1st. & last pp., yellowed, G $
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Good. Later. Good. Text is warped from water damage, name and date on front free endpaper, cloth covers are soiled on rear, gold stamped on front and spine, rubs; on corners and edges, bumped on corners, a nice reading copy with illustrations, browned text edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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London n, d, (94th thousand-probably late 19thc) James Blackwood. 8vo., 112pp., illustrated with humorous line drawings, later wraps. Good plus, binding secure; text clean.