The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-06-17

were audible among me cohiuStu CITES lhu' S'ec'-
ed Toms parliamentary document
Older! Order! listen TO the Chair! cried mp
kns. is there any member Of The House who Is
not the proprietor of pair Of longs'
Item, vessel containing oil
No answer.
'ltem. newspaper, college catalogue, dc,iona-
~ OF other combuslible"
No answer.
Then, gentlemen, I see my way Meet mo in
the lower entry, equipped every man with The ar
lices menloned,'
The House adjourned.
The entry was in perfect darkness, The COW
stood at the farther extremity, drawing her breath
heavily, aud Pipkins, confident of success issued
his orders with the calm collecledness so indicative
ef the master spirit. Armed after the manner of
Gideon and his three hundred At the taking of Jer-
irho, we stood in back room ready for the crisis.
Firmly pinched in the extremity Of his tongs each
brave held dictionary or newspaper, saturated
with oil, aud at each mans foot was Il lighted
lamp.
lllume!' hoarsely whispered Pipkins, thrusing
his h. ad in at the door In an instant the fam
beaux were alight and the room SHINE like a tenn
pie Of the sun. AT the third lhwack, charge into
the entry! Front rank, light high and wave, and
let the war-cry be 'Go along"
Thwack! Thawack! Thawack!
The COW had already struck into can,er when
the door was flung open. Thirty blazing torches
thirty hoaIse voices vociieraing no along ac-
celebrated her speed into galop, The stairs were
before her. One wild moment she stood roaring
with alright uhrigh, as the giraffe at palm tree,
but lhwack went the broomsck, and closer pres
seG the flaming torches, and with spring, stumble,
scramble and snort, the astoni,hed quadluped
achieved the stairs
Front rank! Once more to the breach shout
ed pipkins. lie led the assault with bis white ash
brooonl--he hrealhcss animal WAS driven on
Bang! Crisp the blows descended and the burning
oil Kissed in the flame, and up like Taurus fright
ened out Of the zodinct by a comet, rushed the
thunder striker COW No breathing limG--no stay
Another roar--anoher snort of terrUr--a whSk of
the fiery ail-a noise as of bauerns ilns ar clubs
at Donybronk Fair--nnd painting, s,lSpng, ana
garng terridcally around, the heleagured COW
stood at Toms door in the fourth story.
Slightly damaged in the knees, but not other
wise hut, Pipkln's new chnm was easily hal,errd
and installed IN the vacant dormi,ory, and with
more philosophy than accompanies more sudden
elevations, she had come To her feed, and exhibit
ted most of her habl,ua functions in the lapse of
half an hour.
The lurmips Toms patience, and our capnbilily
Of excitement, lasted a week. Nightly milk punch
es aud nightly f:olics will wear, we discovered,
even upon the head and stomach of sophomore,
and no. pitality to quadrupeds, Ppkms was obliged
10 confess. has Il liant in the fourth story, howev-
or i, may be on the ground floor We had laugh
ed ourselves lau, over the steward trouble about
his lost COW, aud Tom, who had cut advertisements
from the newspapers and pasted them on her horns,
fairly wished she was again cropping and fertall-
zng the college enclosure. How she was to be
got down was II point we left securely to his bril-
liant generalshp
In the fourth story font Of the next entry, we
fortunately had an ally, and, as means Of escape
from tutors, we had long maintained Il hole in the
wall, secretly conn Getting his dOnitory with the cor
responding one in our own entry. Another ally
lived IN the back room on the snlnc floor, very
much cranped in the love of liberty, however, By
his cham, MIR Snecps, an cx,lonrncymNn baker,
whose talents had been discovered by a benevolent
society late in life, and who made II conscientious
duty of nioi u'ing the Faculty of all m.demcanors
that came under his observation. In college pl,ras-
eology, persons of this peculiar complexion of sci
ence are commonly called Jiuc skins,
Saturday evening came around again, and tue
to our trust, we assembled in South College. The
COW had now been stabbed eight days aud nights in
Toms vacant Bedroom, and the ntlno> pierre was
had been obliged to remove his bed from under,
but that was no great matter, lie was one of us
The punch went slowly around, and the conversa-
ton was almost at stand sill. Two or three
were asleep on their chairs with their glasses led
before them, a brace or two had taken To Toms
capicous bed and, as the college clock struck
twelve, PipkinS. Johnson, (Snrep's CHAMP and
myself, were leaning with our elbows on the table
gazing yacantly at the almost Drumming milk pail,
the only ones that were awake.
is that twelve y said Tom, musing'y, What
time does Sneeps 90 to bed, johnson =
Had you not better try to get rid Of your COW,
before you try new scrape !? was the indirect an
swcr. Il confess should like TO see my wav out
Of this
'lou shall see the cows way out Of this in
twenty minutes said Pipkins Jumping up aud
swallowing bumper Of the punch.
Come rouse up. The COW is in iransiia,-
Who'll bet an oycster supper tina, | don't show
Snccps the devil, dispose of my tenant, aud to-
morrow 90 unsupported to chapeIn
BY this time the slcepcrs were on their legs, and
all on the gui rire for Toms new project Pro-
ducing two large newspapers, he stepped them
thoroughly in OIL, and twisting them around
the horns Of the COW, binding them tightly
with Irvine near the head, and opening them fan
shaped IA, the points In the week that the kindly
animal had been his guest, she had fed daily from
his hand, and she now submitted most trac,aby to
his decoration. Having arranged her head dress so
that she looked like the horn pictures of Moses he
Ioosed her halter, and taking the last bunch Of tur
nps in his hand, led her into the entry. The !
opposite loom was open, and with his candle and
proyender he crossed 10 the dormitory, the COW |
following, and crep, through the secret hole in the
wall. Shouts OF laughter rang through the college
a4 his design began to flash on comprehensions
The COW stopped at the obstruction, but on the !
other side of the hole which was barely sufficient To
let her body through stood Tom.wilh turnips tempt
ingy displa, ed, aud she drew her breath through
her nos!rls .inqlIinsly, and made slight demon
s!r,liJn toward IA jump. Iom relreated slowly, !
till he stood in the door way of the little room and
taking single step half out Of sight, he once mere