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nonchalant attitude in the gallery. Most of us could never tell afterwards how we made
our arms and legs go through the exercises. But we had builded better than we knew.
The interested, enthusiastic training of the year had made us automatons, the presence of
the mind was hardly necessary, At last, the drill was over. 1903 had already contended—
a dreadful, torturing few years while the judges compared notes, then “VICI” rang and
re-rang in all our ears before we finally realized what it meant. The subsequent contests
with the other divisions of 1903 and then the great final ones with 1905 seemed no longer
terrible ordeals, now that we had once tasted of sweet victory. And so we had come, had
seen and had conquered all the world in our championship at gym. What was there left
to us that we could not do! But alack—parallel bars, Indian clubs and—VAULTS OVER
THE LENGTH OF THE LONG HORSE!! were still creatures of Miss Garlock’s prolific

brain.
GRACE B. WADE.



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