The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-24
0 (penitent.)
] (promises better.
3 (improved.)
0 (discouraging.)
0 Every diseouraging }
4 fhonafuI

(hopefuL)
IE certainly couldn't have been be-
cause the Professor had any reason to
think he would take good care of it
for I0Egs never took eare.of anything.
And the Professor thought more of
that skeleton than he did at least
the boys said so-than he did of his
wife, Or his pew atehapel (it had cush-
ions), or his ten children, or his silk
hat. So you can easily see that he
must have thought a great deal of the
skeleton. However, they are gener-
ally those of US who deserve the least
who gee the most in this world, and
the fact remains. that when the Pro.
lessor went to New York TO deliver
an address before the Society for
FiVisecting Etherizad Rabbits, Goggs
had the skeleton.
on had better hang it up In dry
roomy place, said the Professor, after
the lecture on the Cerebellum. He
looked the horrid thing all over re-
Erelfully, and tenderly stroked its
empty skull. Il think you will quite
quite enjny it, said the Professor;
he wiped his spectacles a little. Il
have found i. L do assure you, Goggs /;
] have found that specimen excellent
company"
The Professor looked lonely, trudg-
inR away with his carpet bsg to his
et6erizsd rabbits. Goggs felt sorry for
him. He took the skeleton carefully
&c bis ocm, and carefully hung it up
j LIE lOset. Goggs rOOmed in tne
fourth story of North Middle" close
under lie sitting attic and the blister
--@f oF kba Mindless rbadola1c
dusty do-mitory- consequently, he
found his closet dry" place. Goggs
generally put his clothes Wher5 it
would be least trouble to get them
again, and this was generally on the
closet door-consequently he found
the closet q "roomy place. The
skeleton had the nails to himself, and
plenty of elbow room. Goggs hung
him up by string, and rolled his
best pantaloons up into q little foot
stool for him. The Professors re-
quests thus faithfully attended to,
Goags shut the closet door on his
ugly visitor. The creature gave q
Little grin In the last departing streak
Of light, as the button turned, as
much ss 70 say, Comfortable quar-.
eTs-thenks-Con't trouble yourself.
And GoEgs felt as if he we're doing 8
very inhOspitsble thing, and deserved
the sarcasm. He thought that if be
we're ever to be In such reduced cir
cumstances as to become q college
skeleton, 10 should take il 50 no more
thR0 common courtesy to be allowed
Ous among the fellows where be could
see what was going on. However
that was ell he thought about it, anC
that was the last he thought aboutit.
That was the last he thought abou
It all half past eleven O'Clock thai
night He buttonei the door anC
EsnE 10 Greek, and went TO Rhetoric
and vent to Calculus, and went Il
prayers, and went down town, and Il
supper. and to Xi OmikrOn. and t
Zsts Eta, and club or two, and {
rush or two, and q FIRE. and an ice
cream saloon, and to bed and to sleep
but never thought of the skeleton I'll
past-eleven.
at half-past- eleven he woke uI
and remembered that he meant {
have looked over "Paley on the Flu
ture State" instead of eating tia
last harlequin. Whether from tn
couueetion of theological idea!
b. lF1m guilty conscience, or iroT
t act that the last harlequi
one two many, cannot say, bu
4 identical moment he remem
that there was dead man i
aioset.
VOW the closet opened directly uE
n me head of his bed.
u Wonder if the door IS shut
thought Goggs. The door was. or Il
door seemed, to be quite shut.
i wonder if l should like it az
better to lie at the foot Of the bed
thought GOggs. He turned around ar
favaftke foot of the bed. But there vi
no bolster there, and he did not lii
it any better.
II believe I'm behaving like fool
thouqbt Goggs; and to prove that
wasn't. he went back to the head
the 1ed again.
The bolster was easy, but Cog
wasn't. Theroom was as still as cou
try ohurch-yard on a Sunday nigl
A Lalf- light craWled in through Il
do5r: Goggs had the dark room tn
he and his cbUm having toss
corners for It, and there was
window. The bright dimDess or di
briratn ness Of q moon, away Toul
4msw here on the eastern side OF {
r5fIeess, with difficulty outlined
hs3a8sts aud bureau. A hea
fsaeg folded In the closet do
co. wondered il bis chum We
@ase- and oalled-for che fun Of {
rfn it Is always fun to wake 20
rm 10 In the middle Of the mig
n4 how oross you can make hi
3 there-Dick T.
Dick vas sound asleep; Di
-es 10 answer 81 al.
Tf--e vas no uss il denying
cr-ys wanted some 1--we comps
uaaef uncomfortable. Ghost st0ri
tories, Rboui stories, came il
ughf.-aIi that he bad g
Tzr Obesity. gasping, gurgli
f-s-sll that he had ever seer
r-1-7 b before his eyes. All
Tra4Fll words ia the vocabulary &
Tfth e.. occurred 10 him.
bered all the anatomical
81 the lectures In the disse
he never remembered Ia
he wondered who that
3. behind him there. before
artrfslea. and Vantrieies. :