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The use of gloves was not i until 1860 when the Marquis of Queensberry d up the first s of rules. Though he was t a prizefighter, Mendoza did much to change crude p into a sport, for he brought science to the game. In his day, Mendoza enjoyed t p . He was a by rich and poor a .Mendoza r to f s after a boxing match when he was only fourteen years old. This attracted the attention of Richard Humphries who was then the most e boxer in England. He o to train Mendoza and his young pupil was quick to learn. In fact, Mendoza soon became so successful that Humphries turned against him. The two men quarrelled b and it was clear that the argument could only be s by a fight. A match was held at Stilton w both men fought for an hour. The public b a great deal of money on Mendoza, but he was d . Mendoza met Humphries in the ring on a later o and he lost for a second time. It was not until his third match in 1790 that he finally b Humphries and became C of England. Meanwhile, he f a highly successful Academy and even Lord Byron became one of his pupils. He earned e sums of money and was paid as much as &100 for a s appearance. D this, he was so e that he was always in d . After he was defeated by a boxer called Gentleman Jackson, he was quickly forgotten. He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and died in p in 1836.Lesson 22 By heart Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end. In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night. One would expect them to know their parts by heart and never have cause to f . Yet this is not always the c .A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been I in the Bastille for twenty years. In the last act, a gaoler would always come on to the stage with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner. Even though the n was expected to read the letter at each performance, he always i that it should be written out in full.One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke on his c to find out if, after so many performances, he had m to learn the c of the letter by heart. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and r the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell. Just then, the gaoler appeared with the p letter in his hands. He entered the cell and p the letter to the aristocrat. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual. It was s a blank sheet of paper. The gaoler looked on eagerly, anxious to see if his f actor had at last learnt his lines. The n stared at the blank sheet of paper for a few seconds. Then, s his eyes, he said: 'The light is d . Read the letter to me.' And he p handed the s of paper to the gaoler. Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either, the gaoler r : 'The light is indeed d , sire. I must get my glasses.' With this, he hurried off the stage. Much to the aristocrat's a , the gaoler returned a few moments later with a pair of glasses and the usual copy of the letter which he p to read to the prisoner.Lesson 23 One man抯 meat is another man抯 poison People become quite i when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. If you lived in the Mediterranean, for i , you would consider octopus a great d .You would not be able to understand why some people find it r . On the other hand, your s would turn at the idea of frying potatoes in animal fat----the normally accepted p in many northern countries. The sad t is that most of us have been brought up to eat certain foods and we s to them all our lives.No c has received more praise and a than the common garden snail. Cooked in wine, snails are a great l in v parts of the world. There are c people who, ever since their early years, have learned to a snails with food. My friend, Robert, lives in a country where snails are d . As his flat is in a large town, he has no garden of his own. For years he has been asking me to collect snails from my garden and take them to him. The idea never a to me very much, but one day, after a heavy shower, I happened to be walking in my garden when I noticed a huge number of snails taking a s on some of my prize plants. Acting on a sudden i , I collected several d , put them in a paper bag, and took them to Robert. Robert was delighted to see me ande pleased with my little gift. I left the bag in the hall and Robert and I went into the living room where we talked for a c of hours. I had forgotten all about the snails when Robert suddenly said that I must stay to dinner. Snails would, of course, be the main dish. I did not f the idea and I r followed Robert out of the room. To our d , we saw that there were snails everywhere: they had escaped from the paper bag and had taken c p of the hall! I have never been able to look at a snail since then.Lesson 24 A skeleton in the cupboard We often read in novels how a s r person or family has some terrible secret which has been c from strangers for years. The English language p a v saying to describe this s of situation. The terrible secret is called 'a s in the cupboard '. At some d moment in the story the terrible secret becomes known and a r is r . The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that theh , a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her y , p every one of her five husbands.It is all very well for such things to occur in f . To v d , we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn, but few of us have s in the cupboard. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton, and he is very proud of the fact. George studied medicine in his youth. Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of d stories. I once spent an u weekend which I shall never forget at his house. George showed me to the guestroom which, he said, was r used. He told me to u my things and then come down to dinner. After I had s my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers, I decided to hang one of the two suits I had brought with me in the cupboard. I opened the cupboard door and then stood in front of it p . A skeleton was d before my eyes. The sudden movement of the door made it s slightly and it gave me the i that it was about to l out at me. Dropping my suit, I d downstairs to tell George. This was worse than 'a terrible secret'; this was a real skeleton ! But George was u . 'Oh, that,' he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend. 'That's Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.'Lesson 25 The Cutty Sark One of the most famous sailing ships of the nineteenth century, the Cutty Sark, can still be seen at Greenwich. She stands on dry land and is visited by thousands of people each year. She s as an i r of the great ships of the past. Before they were replaced by steamships, sailing vessels like the Cutty Sark were used to carry tea from China and wool from Australia. The Cutty Sark was one of the fastest sailing ships that has ever been built. The only other ship to m her was the Thermopylae. Both these ships set out from Shanghai on June 18th, 1872 on an exciting race to England. This race, which went on for e four months, was the last of its kind. It m the end of the great tradition of ships with sails and the beginning of a new e .The first of the two ships to reach Java after the race had begun was the Thermopylae, but on the Indian Ocean, the Cutty Sark took the l . It seemed certain that she would be the first ship home, but during the race she had a lot of bad luck. In August, she was s by a very heavy storm during which her r was t away. The Cutty Sark r from side to side and it became impossible to s her. A t rudder was made on b from s planks and it was fitted with great difficulty. This greatly reduced the speed of the ship, for there was danger that if she travelled too quickly, this rudder would be t away as well. Because of this, the Cutty Sark lost her lead. After crossing the equator, the captain called in at a port to have a new rudder f , but by now the Thermopylae was over five hundred miles ahead. Though the new rudder was fitted at t speed, it was impossible for the Cutty Sark to win. She arrived in England a week after the Thermopylae. Even this was r , considering that she had had so many d . 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