Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-20
From Every Saturday.
ONE OF GOGGS'S STORIES.
BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.


"GoGas !"said the Professor!
Goggs jumped. 1t was quite time.
The Professor had called him twice
already. II it had been anybody but
Goggs he would not have been called
again As it was he came out of his
brown study half second too late:
he had lost his place and his wits to-
gether, by the time that the Professor
said, -
Translate"
I-would-eat, said Goggs; and
stopped.
and stuck.
What would Goggs have eaten
Nobody knew much better than Goggs.
The fellows all turned to the text books,
while Goggs stopped and stuck. He
had stopped in the middle of an en-
hvenihg little story, which ran some
thing like this =
A gentleman (Goggs thinks it was
Darius) asked another gentleman Goggs
thinks that must have been a barba-
aian) couple of dozen centuries more
or less ago, when people were not as
now, what inducement he would take to
eat his father and mother Said the
dutiful son, ~ would not eat my pa
rents for anything,
Said Goggs, only Goggs couid
have said it said Goggs, looking up
into the Professors face with cheer
full confidence,
"ItOOaid G0tH} parents for ncthiR9,
air p
"That's sufficient, sir.' said the Pro
essor
In half an hour that story was all
over college, Everybody agreed it was
the best thing of the term. Goggs
himself was inclined to think so, sit
ting ruefully in his room tipping back
in his chair to think about it after
dinner.
Goggs was rueful for more reasons
than one. In fact, his Greek blunder
was the least of his troubles, it was
too funny to trouble him very much.
Indeed, ne had only made it in the
helpless despair of a far more appall-
ing grief.
Next week was Calculus, Examination.
Whether he should fall down stairs
and break his ann; whether he should
visit the city hospital in hopes of a
smallpox case to which he might law
fully and benevolently expose him
self; whether he should take Prusslc
acid or have the cramp IN swimming
how 1t would answer to commit some
petty theft and SO get safely into the
lookup till Examination week was over
If his sister would have typhoid fever
and telegraph for him to come on!
What would happen if he should "bar
out for a few days in the coal-closet
with a hole in the door for bis chum to
stick his dinner through; what would
be the effect of losing his property
that week Che had fifty dollars in Grand
Smash Railroad bonds), aud of being
summoned suddenly to New York to
look after it; how it would strike the
Professors impossible fancy if he
should so to sleep with his feet in q
paul of cold water some night. and have
diphtherias and many other
equally ingenious reflections had filed
the soul of Goggs when the Greek Pro
lessor put to him that delicate ques-
ton about his parents.
These and many even sa6der redec-
tons filled the soul OF Goggs, sitting
alone in his room, tipping back in his
chair after dinner
a big brown boy, who headed the
wrong end of his class, came in while
Goggs was sitting alone.
hilloa said he
so, It's you, is it said Goegs.
more surprised than pleased; .he
brown boy was not III his "set -: in
TACT, had never been into the room be
fore. " It's you. is it Wen Sit down.
then. >
The brown boy sat down then, with
on waiting for a more gracious invita-
ton.
"Hilloa " sad he again.
"Well said Goggs, gloomily.
Met Sky-blue up Chapel today .
SAID the brown boy with confidential