and for many years the spot was marked to designate
the length of the jump. Even during the
years when his courageous death appeared to be
well-nigh forgotten, "Hale's jump" was vividly
remembered. But he not only "jumped;" he
excelled in all games then popular in college, besides
being a capital shot with his rifle, as well as a fine
swimmer.

Hale could, it is said, lay one hand on the top
of a six-foot fence and easily vault over it; and,
though this astonishing feat is reported as occurring
while he was a teacher, he used to delight his
companions by showing them how to stand in a
hogshead with his hands on his hips, leap over the
first hogshead, land in a second, leap from that
into a third, and from that out on to the ground,--all
this before he was twenty.

Imagine the delight of the "other fellows"
standing around to watch Hale go through his
various stunts in athletics! It almost makes one
feel as if one had been a student and shared in the
cheering when Hale did these things, so easy to
himself, so difficult to the onlookers. Then fancy
the talk at the supper tables, when the candles
burned brightly and the eatables tasted twice as
good because "old Hale" had won laurels for "old
Yale" that afternoon by some "splendid" deed, as

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