Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-26

''\AN> M (S'' al Cne QTSL sally
with the sword
with a cannonading of vituperative epi-
thets-"
''If you hadn't allowed those fellows
to run poor old Sultan
"Oh, Sultan be hanged! They didn't
hurt him any
HE might have overlooked past Of
fenses. and mightn't -.
''Look here. Kittie McCalligan, what's
the use of your nights and your
'mightn 'ts'-Uncle Mac detests, abhors,
abominates, despises, hates and loathes
the college boys"
''For which | am painfully aware he
has, too often, just cause. Who ties
cats to his window shutters? Who puts
turtle eggs under the hen? Who SNUG
giles bowling dogs into the cellar at
dead of night, fills Sultan's name with
burs. and paints the front fence red,
white and blue? You may use all tho
telling synonyms you care to-
''If he didn't hate em they wouldn't
do it"
"'TAey' - with Teddy McCalligan,
ring-leader, left out?''
"Oh. say, Kit
'You fellows don't do much to make
him love you that ] have ever seen.
Great, grown boys like you, at that,
not a soul among you under seven
teen"
Nor one of us over twenty. Twen-
ty's awful young for boy. Kit, and all
the fellows so far from home, and that,
and halfway homesick, the most of
'em. and not one allowed to go home at
Thanksgiving, with the Don kicking up
such dust about it all"
You can go home, at any rate, and
as for being homesick. III wager that
Jim"
."Ohl Jim Junior-'beautiful Jim
he's the rummiest cove of the lot, if you
lfke-and you needn't roll your eyes
around in such an indignant manner,
either-you're not the only girl living"
"Tetldyl''
''Well. you are, then; but I happened
to see photograph in Jim's chest
pocket"
..'Teddyl'
stunning picture-eyes like stars,
mouth like-well, what you crying
about?"
Ibid you-did-did-did you ever hear
Jim say he wa-was homesick?'
''Think the fellows blubbering
idiot? S'pose you imagine he's going
around dampening handkerchiefs with
the brinel Oh, I say. Kit, that was your
photograph caught on to-help . fel-
low out, won't you?"
When a man in impecunious circum-
stances acts in manner somewhat
unusual, he is straightway dubbed
crank; if, on the other hand,
a man of means is guilty of the
selfsame actions, he is termed mere
ly eccentric. Maj. McCalligan's bank
account was large enough to allow him
to be called by the longer and more
euphonious appellation, and persistent
enough in his oddity to keep the sib-
liant word continually upon the tongues
of the people unluckily obliged, by
stress of circumstances, to dwell inside
the corporation of the populous college
town. The major had settled there
long before any great barracks Of q
school building had been erected, be-
fore the noise and confusion consequent
upon the arrival of hundreds of manner
less youths within the town-youths
who laughed law and order to scorn,
and had since filed the majors nights
with hideous unrest That he, the
hero of hundred battles, should be
routed by such an enemy to his peace.
that he should pull up stakes and fly be-
fore so pulling, SO inane foe was as far
from his thoughts as that the majors
ire was that adversary's chief Joy. In
every way possible, innocently or
maliciously, these tormentors sought to
arouse the majors wrath, desisting
only when they had won for themselves
the dear delight of seeing his quick
Irish blood fly to his scowling brow,
and hearing his quick Irish tongue
berating them with the choice invective
he had, with seeming forethought, gath
cred for such occasions as these in his
native land
In the college town, therefore, the
major had remained, pestered and en-
1oyed by youths who grew to manhood.
graduated, and, as the years flew by,
began sending on second editions OF
themselves to their beloved Alma Mater.
During this passage of time the
majors sister-the sole idol of his heart
had married and. after several years OF
married bliss, had found herself a
widow, with two little children to care
: for. Although she realized their great
need Of her, and fought bravely to live
for their sal1es, her efforts were of No
avail. and each day saw her more and
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