At last, when the hands of the clock both pointed to the figure eleven, Pringle, whose score had been at ninety-eight since half-past ten, found himself within two inches of his opponent's ball, which was tottering on the very edge of the pocket. He administered the coup de grace with the air of a John Roberts, and retired triumphant; while the Charchester representatives pointed out that as their score was at seventy-four, they had really won a moral victory by four points. Straight pool, also known as 14.1 continuous, is a game where players must pocket a set number of balls to reach a predetermined score. The usual game is played between two sides, each having two balls, the side consisting of two players in partnership, each playing one ball, or of one player playing both balls. Visitors standing upon the veranda of the principal hotel in the village had often heard wolves howling in the mountains, and on more than one occasion a deer had been seen standing on the opposite shore of Mirror Lake (it was generally called Wayring's Lake, because Joe's father owned the land on all sides of it), regarding with much curiosity the evidences of civilization that had sprung up on the other side.

Of course there were many more people there in summer than there were in winter, for during warm weather the hotels and all the boarding houses were crowded with visitors, and so were the cottages on the other side of the lake; but when these visitors went away, the citizens did not hibernate like so many woodchucks and wait for them to come back, because they were not dependent upon tourists either for their livelihood or for means of entertainment. Gradually the houses took on the name of 'Pool Rooms', which was an unsavory designation in those times. They were formed in Germany in 1987, and they have since managed to enlist major pool associations from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe. Cutthroat pool is one of the most fun and interesting variations of billiards out there. Some of these visitors had never been there before, and consequently they knew little or nothing about the village and its inhabitants. I only wish the world knew how you treated your poor wife! When once a man's given to it-as my poor aunt used to say-the devil's always tempting him with a ball, as he tempted Eve with an apple. But a poor woman can't leave the house, that-what?

Mrs. Yonelet was a woman of resourceful energy and generalship; she involved the other members of the house-party, the deadweight, so to speak, in all manner of exercises and occupations that segregated them from Bertie and Dora, who were left to their own devisings - that is to say, to Dora’s devisings and Bertie’s accommodating acquiescence. You'll have a separate room-you'll not be tormented in this manner? Mr. Farnsworth and Mr. Bigden thought Mount Airy would be just the place for their boys, but the latter would have raised the most decided objections if the subject of a change of residence had been broached to them before they witnessed that parade, and learned something about the men and boys who composed it. Unfortunately, I liked the latter place very much; the colleges, there are still bigger and still older, they have beautiful quiet parks, galleries of equally famous ancestors, banquet-halls, memorials and dignified janitors, but all this display and tradition is not aimless; it would seem that the purpose of it is to train not learned specialists, but gentlemen. You'd have all the world do nothing half its time but twiddle its thumbs, or walk in the parks, or go to picture-galleries, and museums, and such nonsense.

Yes, he had grown callous since coming to North Valley; he had lost that delicacy of feeling, that intuitive understanding of the sentiments of ladies, what is billiards which he would surely have exhibited a short time earlier in his life. I shall have a son! You'd have all those young men let away early from the counter to improve what you please to call their minds. The former freed inquiry as men loose a noble hound; the latter frees inquiry as men fling back into the sea a fish unfit for eating. It was surrounded by a perfect network of babbling trout brooks, and there were several lakes and ponds in the vicinity in which some of the finest fish in the world awaited the lure of the skillful angler. We ought, rather, to say that there were two bands of archers, one being composed of boys and girls, and the other of their fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters. Yes, I know your notions; you say that everybody works too much: I know that. They made him breathe some gas or other, to see what his rabbity spleen would say to it. It was at this stage in my reasoning that I began to see the light.