Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-05-01


Sran. whom we will call Bob, had dropped
about dozen chickens outside, and the
whole crowd was in high glee over the pros
pective banquet
DANGER AT HAND.
Just then big, old rooster crowed.
"Look out, Bob; break that ROSTERS neck
and stop his noise'
"Sh What's that"
There was a low grOwl.
"Boys, you have let these logs down toe
low: lift them a little so l can get out Be
quick about it,
At that instant there was a loud bark and
a bic dog bounded into the poultry yard.
The BOYS on the outside for an instant stood
their ground They dropped the rail and
they grabbed chance weapons to beat of the
dog. but before they could disable him the
door of the doctors residence opened and his
tall figure appeared The boys scattered, all
but one.
The logs had come together again and
Bob was prisoner He Crouched i'm cor
uor and held his breath, hoping that he would
be overlooked, but the dog told where he was.
BY this time the doctor had come up and
other members of the family came out eager
to see who was caught in the man trap.
"Why it's Bob
"Who would have thought it," The ex-
carnations were heard i'm the house and
echoed by the young ladies. Then the door
of the log house was opened and the young
man was sent TO the dormitory. He was
called before the faculty the next morning
The poor fellow would have sold himself for
a song, and expected to be peremptorily ex-
PEELED and perhaps prosecuted.
THE DOCTORS CONCLUSIONS.
Meantime the doctor had thought the mat
ter over. He was a man of great sagacity in
the management of bSys, and he recognized
this freak as a piece of wild mischief which
might not be meauncss. He resolved to give
the matter such disposition as would put a
sober head ON the young man. Accordingly,
when Bob appeared, looking like criminal,
the doctor lectured him severely but in a
fgthcrly way, and told him that such an
oiiensc must not go without a severe punish.
ment
Bob expected the sentence of his expulsion.
With measured tones, like a judge pronounc.
ing the death sentence, the doctor said:
MIR --, will expect you to take supper
with me tonight, and, as you show fond.
ness for chicken, the fowls you took off the
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Bob would rather have been expelled. But
for tho distress it would cause his parents he
would have gone home. In spite of his larks
there was good stuff in Bob, and with a tire
wgadous effort he resolved TO face the music.
lt is impossible TO describe the mental az.
ouy Bob went through that evening when he
$50, 40 the table where the doctor presided
with courtly dignity.
His elegant wife could not have been more
courteous TO an honorol guest than she was
20 Bob, and her daughters treated the Young
man as cordially as ever Not a word was
sa.d about the affair of the night before, but
the De- c dish OF chickens was like a mount
ain Ia ,-s POOR boys eyes 1t was the refine.
mcnt of torture when the doctor, with the
utmost suayity, helped him to the choicest
pieces
The situation, which, under ordinary cir,
cumstauccs, would have been ludicrous.
under the doctors composure and his wife.
tact was carried almost TO the pathetic.
IL was lesson written ON B0bs memory ir
burning letters, and he never forgot it-At-
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