Daily Republican., 1888-01-09
suPPkD WITH The PRESIDENT.


Atlanta Journal.
In the early years OF this ctntury,
when log houses were good enough for
the average Georgian, D certain doctor
presided over franklin College
The simp 9 habits OF their dignifed
sires did not prevent the boys OF those
days from having their fuu-indeed,
they carried on an amount OF deei!ment
which the college boys CT these times
would consider respectable.
Tbs boys thought that anything wac
fair which would make one OF the
faculty tho victim Of joke, and ON ons
occasion they laid datk plot to rob the
DOCTORS poultry yard and aiterwArd
celebrate The event BY n midnight ban
quot
The doctors chickens we're the pride
Of his dom eotio Establishment, and he
bad built for their accom- mediation log
house. The logs were 'notohed down"
OF the CORNERS and held IN plaoe'by their
own weight and the roof.
AT late hour the boys repaired to
the ben heuse, armed with fence rau.
1t was an easy matter to iosert the rail
between two logo and pry up th1se
Above.s % TO make an opening through
which = man could crawl. A dApper
young fellow who had visited tie doc
tors daughters, went In aid began to
pull the chickens of tho roost and
wiring their Deoks. While he did 40 the
boyB outside kept their weight on the
| rail, and 30 kept the crack open for his
escape. The nice young man, whom
ve will call Bob, had dropped about q
| dozen chickens outside, and tho whole
crowd was In high Glee over the pros
-a kn NJ than N hfr nld
| rooster crowsd.
"Look out, Bob; break that roos.er'i
neck and stop bis noiVe."
"Shl What's that2"
There was low growl.
Boys, you havo let these logs dowr
too low; lift them little, 90 l can ge
out Be quick about It."
At tina; instant there was q loud bari
and big dog bounded into the poultry
yard. The boys on the outslde for OF
Infant stood their ground. TheI
dropped the rail and grabbed chAno
weapons TO beat Cd the dog, but betor
they could disable him the door OF th,
DOCTORS residence opened snd his tai
aEure appeared. The boys scattered
all but one.
| The logs had come together again ant
Boo Was . prisoner. HIS orouched In
corner and held his breath, hoping tina
he would be overlooked, but the dol
ttld where he was.
by this time the doctor had come ul
and other mem bers OF the family cam
out, eager 10 ste who was caught in th
man trap.
"Why, it's Bob"
"Who would have thought it?" TIL,
exolAmalions were heard in tho boue
and echoed by the young lad.es. The
the door OF the log house was opene
and the young man WAS sent 10 tn
dormitory. He Was called before th
faculty tho next morning. Tho poo
fellow would have sold himself Tor
song, and expected to be peremp.oril
ekIelt I'D Rno perhaps prosecuted.
Meantime the doctor had thought th
matter over. de was q man OF grsa
sagaoity In the management of boys
ana be recognized this freak as a piec
Of wild misohief which might not b
mesnness. He resolved to give th
matter snoh disposition as would put
sober head on q young man. Aco6rl
inRly, when Bob appeared, look log hk
! r criminal, the doctor leetured him 8,
verely, bu, in tatherly way, and toll
hun that such an offence must not z
without severe punishment.
Boz expected the sentsnce OF hio 81
pulsion. With measured tones, like
: Judge pronouncin2 ths death sentence
the doctor said:
INF -, l will expect you to tab
supper with me to night. and AS 30
show foDdness for chicken, the fow
you took off the roost last night will
GU the table I"
Bob would rather have been expelled
But for the distress IL would cause b
: parents be would have gone home.
.pite of his larks there was god atuff
Bob, and with tremendous Effort /
resolved TO face the nu sio.
1t 10 impossible to describe the me-
tai agony Bob went through that eve
Ing when he sat ct the table where Il
Doctor presided with oourtiy dignity.
His elegant wife could not have bee
| more courteous to an honored que
than she was to b ID and her daughte
treated the young man rs cordially I
ever.
Not . word WAS raid about the nffa
) OF the night before, but the large di,
> OF chickens was like O mountain In n
: poor boys eyes. 1t was the refinemel
Of torture when the doctor, with u
utmost suavity, helped him TO q
choicest pieoes.
The situation, which under ordiuni
circumstances would have been lud
oroas, under the DOCTORS composu
! and his wife's tact, was carried Almo
> to the pathetic.
II was o lesson written on Bob
memory In burning letters, and
never forgot 1t.
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