Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-10-21
A FEW COLLEGE YARNS.
WORK THAT BOYS IN SCHOOL WILL
UNDERTAKE FOR FUN.

ProfessOr's Horse WWs AsAiSeu In the
Air-when One Fellow Had to Pray
Three Hours TO Save the Crowd.
"Talking of hazing," said university
club man the other evening, 'T'm here
with some emphasis and accent to say it is
not always success. was with party
of students once who, having set their aca-
demic hearts ON hazing a rough and un-
couth specimen from Vermont, repaired to
his room about II o'clock one night to per-
form these rites There were seven of the
invaders, including myself, and we silently
collected in the corridor outside the fresh
mans door, In order to be impressive in
our entrance at given signal we hurled
ourselves against the portal and burst it in.
81 recall feeling of pride as the door
went in at the success of this first step,
but nothing distinctly afterward. In the
the curtains from the swinging moon we
beheld long, sparse and meager being
who flew out of bed and fell upon us. He
was silent as bulldog, but quick and
ferocious as a cat. never saw such a
creature | got blow which vividly re-
member comparing ON the spot to a fail, a
comparison, by the way, which | do not now
alter or regret. The whole affair did not
last ten minutes, and its close found my
self and the other hazers battered and
bruised and out in the hall
RAISING THE HORSE.
1.-THE Vermonter did not even attempt to
close the door after US, such was his con-
tempt for our prowess. He went over to n
washstand while we consulted in the hall.
We did not go back in his room. We could.
of course, but we saw it would consume a
great deal of time and the hour was late.
So we gave it up.
g Say, you Vermont mani l said as we
were about to leave, 4 trust you are not
mean enough to report this to the fac
ultyT
"'Not at ALL he said with a CHEEKY
laugh. 4 like it, Come again any time you
please. Your attentions are very crafty
ing to my PRIDE"
"Where ! was" was, said the listener, wa
had a little fun one perfectly blood
less, however-which in its results always
rose an insolvable mystery to the profound
head of the institution. The professor had
an old, fat, sluggish horse, which abode in
asmall pasture or paddock close to the col
lege. One night a party of us repaired
thither and proceeded by means of rails
laid square, just as children build cob
houses, all decked over or fioored with
some two inch planks which lay conve
nient, to build platform. We raised it
at first perhaps eighteen inches from the
ground. Then we built second close be-
side the first and made it three feet high.
'The horse was led up on the first and
from there to the second. Then, taking of
the plank floor, we added about four rails
to each of the four sides and carried the
first platform to about eighteen inches
higher than the one on which the horse
stood. This was planked over and the old
horse invited to climb on it, which he did
in adocile, oppositionless way very winning
to our young hearts. Well, we continued
this alteration business, leading the old
war horse from one pedestal TO the other
until he was twelve feet in the air. perched
on an eminence of rails and planks.
This suited the most fastidious of the
party, and we tore away the rail and plank
construction the horse had no further use
for and piled it carefully back in its sever
al parts just where we got it. The old
horse, who seemed to realize his position
didn't stroll about any, but made the best
of it, lying down and going to sleep. The
professors were much astounded in the
morning and never were able to figure it
out. They sent to neighboring town for
help and got the horse down with u der
rick.