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What time does Sneeps 60 to bed, John

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indirect answer. Il confess should like to
see my way out of this
You shall see the cows way out of this
IN twenty minutes said Pipkins jumping up
and swallowing bumper of the bunch.
Come, rouse up The COW is IN tran
situ! Who'll bet an oyster supper that
don't show Snccps the devil, dispose of my
tenant, and Tomorrow go unsupported to
chapel!'
By this time the sleepers were on their
legs, and all on the qui ricc for Toms new
project. Producing two large newspapers,
he stepped them thoroughly in oil, and twist
ing them around the horns of the COW, bind
ing them tightly with Irvine near the head
and opening them fan shaped at the points.
In the week that the kind animal had been
his guest, she had fed daily from his hand,
and she now submitted most tractably TO
his decoration. Having arranged her head
dress so that she looked like the horn pic
lures of Moses, he loosed her Halter. and ia
king the last bunch of turnips in his hand,
led her into the entry. The opposite room
was open, and with his candle and proven
der he crossed 10 the dormtory, the COW fol-
lowing, and crept through the secret hole in
the wall. Shouts of laughter rang through
the college as his design began to flash on
our comprehensions. The COW stopped a,
the obstruction, but on the other side of the
hole, which was barely sufficient TO let her
body through stood Tom, with turnips Tempt
ingly displayed, and she drew her breath
through her nostriIs inquiringly, and made a
slight demonstration toward jump. Tom
rctrcated slowly, till he stood in the door way
of the little room, and taking single step
half ont Of sight, he once more shook the
turnips and gave a coaxing 'sogh sogh =
and the next moment the COW was fast, with
her head and foreegs in the north entry, and
the remainder in she SOUTH
Prick her on = cried Pipkins just audibly
through the wall.
Crowd her back ! cried all who were be-
hind.
Rap! rap at that instant came the tutors
knock at the door behind us, and in the ex-
tremlty of our desperation, We kicked, shov-
ed and frightened the poor brute till she drew
her legs after her, and left the avenue open
for our own escape. A cloak was Instantly
hung over the hole, and the occupant of the
room remained behind to answer the tutors
questions.
The COW was now in the room of the north
entry, and as the whole IN the wall was en-
tirely unknown to the tutors, and other STU
dents, we thought better sequel could hard
~ be conltrlved Than to leave the COW in the
fourth story. to explain her own advent
Tom, however, had not bounded his ambi-
ton at this. He carefully restored the Or
nate spread of the cows couture, and having
discovered by ii tiptoe reconnoitre that Mr.
Snecps was asleep,as sofiy as the COW could
be made TO follow, he led her along the en-.
try TO that genlcman's door,
Now, Johnson said Pipkins, 90 in and
20 to bed, and when the door opens cry Sire
and the devil, and smash all the crockery
you can lay your hands on. Lie across that
upper stair, some of you, with your back IN.
and the rest ia Ike sticks and lay on like Mac
Duff when give the word
'All ready!' said Johnson, through crack
in the door. With his handkerchief over tho
eyes Of the submissive COW, Pipkins set fire
to her inflamahle head-drcss, and before he
could withdraw lis bandage, the horns were
cncircled in flames. A wild snort of terror
came from the animal, but, at the same in
slant, dozen blows descended on her back
and with IA leap like deer, she sprang thro'
the open door. Crash went an indelinable
mass of crockery, and around the room at
pace perfectly infatuated, ran the COW,
at every round the overthrow ia
bes and chairs, and, with her garing eyes
and her flaming horns, certainly resembling
very strikingly my idea of the devil. Pipkins
held the door open by crack, and we look
ed iirovor hIs shoulder. In the fnrthest cor
ncr of his heed room, crouched Mr. Sneeps,
his mouth open and his face ivid with fright;
and observing the next instant, that he had
covered his face with his hands. Pipkins
slipped in and enveloped himself in sheet
from Johnson's bed and by rush upon the
cow, drove her straight into the dormitorv.
With hands extended and hair upright, and
at single bound, the terrified man made for
the dOor-tumbling over the back of our
friend, as Pipkins had calculated, he pitched
headlong down stairs; but up in second
and still dumb with horror, he continued his
flight; never stopping, as we afierward.
learned, ill he reached the room of the Pre-.
Sidcnt, where he burst in and threw himself
upon the floor.
Pipkins was never abandoned by his an
gel of discretion. Closing the door after the
flying blue skin, he threw blanket over the
cows horns, sent Johnson into the entry tC
cape and wonder with the rest of his disturb
ed neighIors, and hid himself with the COW
in the vacated dormilory of poor Sneeps.-
The tutor had been disturbed by the rattlin,
of hoofs, but he took few minutes to dress
and in that time the wondering Sophs hat
skunk again to their beds, and with the unsat
isfied functionary, the last football was 81
fenced in The entry.
| have laughed at intervals of years, AM
in very grave places, when some chance as
ISOLATION had brought back to my memor,
the picture Of that luckless COW, as she ap
peared TO the assembled college on Sunda,
morning, looking down upon the grass iron
the window of the fourth story of the mort
entry. Tom tied her with short tether t.
the hinge of the outside window blind, AM
when the bell ruug for prayers, and profes
sors, tutors, and students, were all wendin
their way soberly to the chapel, some chanc