The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-08

geant, I'll see they all have notice
and give the old curmudgeon such q
charivari. (sheparee, jeff. called it, as
will make his head sing for week.
'tDone agreed p we answered in
chorus.
GAS old Quercus boards at the same
place, we can kill two birds with one
stone" subjoined Wash. ''Pve added
anew verse to 'Old Grimes on his ac-
count, which I think will tickle his
fancy.p. f2fo i.E s''.e 3Efs
"We might also barrieade the streets
with store-boxes," limited Bill Silver,
who was always in for anything stupid;
but nobody seconded the motion.
{ Having settled the details of the
nights performance, the balance of the
time, till our journeys end was spent in
practicing Wash. s new stanza, which
seemed quite as much thrown away on
our rural companion as the classic con-
undrum had been. s =a -.
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About midnight we were ready for
action. The uniform of the "Raging
Tads'' was what Mr.. Venus, in "Our
Mutual Friend" would call ''aoar,ous !"
AS far as it lay in the power of dis
guise to effect it, every age. sex, color,
and condition was represented while
every accessible instrument capable of
producing an unmusical sound was
brought into requisition.
AS we drew up in the open moonlight
in front of Mrs. Browns boarding
house, the spectacle was imposing. At
a given signal the exercises were open
ed with grand INSTRUMENTAL overture,
well adapted not only to t'murder
Sleep" but to mangle it. Next an elo-
quent address to the new President
was delivered, wherein he was impress
sively exhorted to avoid the footsteps
of his illustrious predecessors, and du-
ly reminded of the fate which befell
Julius Caesar, Charles the First, and
other tyrannical despots. Then music
by the band again. After which
Wash. Purdy and JEFF. Pritchard, in
the respective characters of tBones"
and Brother, propounded and answer
ed the already famous conundrum. Ap-
plause, and more music. Lastly came
the grand feature of the entertainment.
in the shape of Wash. Purdy's supple
ment to "Father Grimes" 1t was
lined out before singing by Cal. Wam-
pier, who was studying for the min
istry, and ran something like this-it
was at least as bad:
"One Sunday, on my way to church,
passed old Quercus by,
A playing 'knucks' with naughty knvs-
His 'taw was HE glass eye.
Gut ~ when he saw my sober face,
He blushed the deepest red,
And in his pocket stuck his eve, --
A coming in his head"
This outrageous allusion to the
worthy Professors Disagreement, in
which, 1 am happy to say, 1 Iabstalned
from joining-the fact is, am no sing
er-was more than flesh and blood
could stand. Up went a window, and
out came the professional nightcap !;
but still more quickly in went the lat
ter, and down came the former, amid
a storm of derisive shouts that fairly
made the welkin ring.
A little irregular business in the
way of signchanging closed our labors
In the morning, the doctor found his
office labelled as an undertaker's shop;
barber pole stood in front of the
bank; and old Coupon, rich as Cresus
and proud as Lucifer, was proposing
to the astonished citizens to do "white
washing in all colors,'' -.e- -s.4
Next morning we were all punctual
in attending chapel. (And here let
me add that after night of disorder
in college, extreme puntuality is not
ahuays a badge of innocence. The
new President was to make his first
public appearance, and we were all
anxious to see him.
He came at last. Death and con-
fussion it was none other than our
countrified fellow-passenger, whom we
had reviled to his face, (thank heaven
it was in no better French y and be-
fore whom we had rehearsed the last
nights programme, that mounted the
presidential rostrum, and conducted
the mornings exercises
On Monday, after chapel, the Pre-
sident read off a list of names, lob
tained no doubt at the coach office }
and requested the parties indicated to
appear forthwith before the faculty.
Suffice 1t to say, Wash. Purdy and
JEFF, Pritchard barely escaped expul-
sion, While all of us received such a
lecture that, by. unanimous consent,
the next parade Of the l"Tads" was in
definitely postponed.