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Title: The Man Who Wins

Author: Robert Herrick

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Language: English

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THE MAN WHO WINS

BY

ROBERT HERRICK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK, 1897

COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

_TO_

H. H.

THE MAN WHO WINS

I

The Four Corners in Middleton made a pleasant drive from the
university town of Camberton. Many a time in the history of the house
a party of young fellows had driven over the old turnpike that started
where the arsenal used to stand in the sacred quarter of Camberton,
and as the evening sun gilded the low, fresh-water marshes beyond
Spring Pond, would trot on toward the rolling hills of Middleton.
After dinner, or a dance, or, perhaps, mere chat over a late supper,
they rode away at midnight singing as they whipped up their sleepy
nags and otherwise disturbing the decorum of night in Middleton. Or,
maybe, routed out early on a frosty October morning, after lighting
pipes and a word with the stable-boy, they would snuggle into
overcoats and spin away over the hard roads where the night frost
still lay on the caked dust in the hollows like a crust of milk. In
crossing the meadows the autumn sun swung into their faces, a
comfortable solace on a morning drive, exciting them forward toward
Camberton that they might report in the little stucco chapel while the
tinny college bell was st