Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-09
"AH, THERE, MY DUMPLlNG."
Colby College Students Make n Night
OF IL With the Girls.


WArERvrLLE, Me-, May s,-lSpecial Tele.
gram to THE BEE. The students of Colby
university are in furry of excitement over
the outcome of one of their larks of Friday
evening last. On that evening the members
of the Congregational church of this city had
advertised a Japanese Sociable," and among
other articles had promised the sale of ico
cream and cake and an exhibition of much
beautiful hand-painted chinaware. The
patronage of all, and especially Colby uni
versity students, was earnestly solicited, and
the students were there. Some of them,
however, did not make their appearance
known at the time, but majority of the
boys managed to find considerable entertain
ment in chatting with the pretty young
women of the church. Those who did not
announce themselves were otherwise en-
gagged" Instead of entering the hail as most
OF the audience did by way of the door, they
preferred to climb in by rear windows of the
basement and search for plunder 1t was u
difficult job, but when they found several ice
cream cans of ponderous size, bountiful
| supply of cake and several pounds of candy,
they trans ferred their booty to the college
buildings, and there put themselves on the
outside of the good things before retiring.
Arrived on the campus the boys began
to develop spirit of real devillshness Ice
cream In elegantly painted dishes with silver
spoons, and delicious cake of variety of
nugatines, chocolate drops and caramels,
seemed to be a little too much for the col
legians and they became quite intoxicated
with desire for a genuine lark"
ulated in their now ice cream
heated brains, one unanimous point
was the young ladies' seminary.
With their ice-cream cans they marched to
| at the ladies' retreat the cans were set on the
front stoop and stream of water directed
ut them. The noise aroused several of the
sleeping girls, when all of a sudden some
who had been careless enough to retire with
open windows received the cold and cruel
stream over their half-dozing forms. Car
| pets were drenched and the very beds on
| which they were reclining were thoroughly
| soaked. Soon the girls began to appear at
| their windows. They were met by a stream
which soaked them and forced rapid retire
ment to a remote corner of their rooms.
| Soon the voice of the preceptress was heard
| at the door, but she was driven IN by we'll
directed stream. The young ladies endeav-
| ants, but the latter had come fully prepared
| for any such emergency. They carried
| umbrellas to conceal their mlschievous coun-
tenances. One of the girls, dminutive
| freshman, descended from the rear window
| of the house and stealthily made her way up
| to the faucet which supplied the hose and
carefully turned off the water. Then the
| matron appeared at the door, followed by n
dozen girls clad in the loose attire of Mother
Hubbard night robes. "Oh, you're funny,
very funny" indignantly said one of the
girls. IAN, there my dumping" was the
| wicked response from one of the concealed
students. a running fire of chaff and re-
| proach was kept up between the students
and the girls. The latter finally retired and
the boys, firing of the lark, went to their
| quarters.
| An investigation will be held.