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Show Many Forms of "Slug." "Slug," ns used In connection with collego footlm!!, Is own bother to tho English "slog" and akin to "slay." Absolutely Ab-solutely different In origin ns In meaning, mean-ing, is the other verb, "slug," nllleil to "slouch" nnd "alack," which Spenser used Intransitively when he wrote of "slugging nil night In n cabin," and Mlllnn transitively when ho declared that episcopacy "wors ,s nnd sluggs tho most learned and teeming religious relig-ious of our ministers." Nobody knows to which of tho two families "slug," a crudely shaped bullet, belongs. Is It something with which ono slogs? Or something ns heavy as a "Blug," or "sluggish" person? Or was It supposed sup-posed to resemble tlio slug that crawls In gardens? |