Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1892-01-26
INCONSISTENCIES OF sAll.o

II never read account. IN the news
piIsrs ~ the prank. ~ college bov. in
'.l.ging' the fr'.hme :" .aid While
halrui, ro.y.fAcrd old New Yorker in
the psrlor ~ bic athletic club the
other night 10 aThbunc reporter, "but
my mind revert. " once Ia hying
scripe ! got my.slf into w my sllit
DAYS. like al .ophomor~-, was par
ticul,rly lotolcrtnt o. Freshman; much
more az than the seniors. We had been
strictly forbidden by the faculty. .to lo
any htIing a all, under the penalty 81
expulsion. and .o Ne could not ct to-
g-ther more than half a dozen ad,rntur-
ou. soul. Who were willing Ia take the
h.k Ia orler Ia punish the freshmen
properly for daring IN I've and prrsuu-
Ing 10 come to college NJ all. We had
to do the thing quietly, 80 after th.
lamp. we're out vc would steal from our
rooms, meet Ia the corridor, snd then
make n descent on some lonely fresh
m,n and 'io him up without any un-
u.xessaTy fu.s.
1--WE had operated successfully on two
or three men, only one In night, aud
ser- ENJOYING the sport thOrou yhly.
The following night u became the tara
~ q long, r,w-bonei, quiet, bt.hful
Youth from Miine, Who h,d little ~
nothing to .ay Ia any Que, ani whose
only car. seemed Ia bc Ia keep al. hand.
sud feet out ~ sight. We anticipated
s0me rare sport With which strobe into
his dark bel chamber AZ the he III ~ oar
gang after had pried hl. door olen
with one gooi tsl'i oi real burglar.
jimmy
"rhe other men had generally cover
I'll under their h-i clothe. or ari.en Ia
their night shirt. aud asked pltcously To
d. let alone. hi. Maine nan Jumped
out 10 bel. however. a. " GID To- meet
~. lie all not worl, IL IN ale not =
sound a. he moved about Ia the dIrs,
but a, Any. how b. ihl swat us.
never before experienced such fen ll.h
strength ~ that fellow seemed tO have.
W. were not familiar With hi room,
and u seemed 10 bc full ~ furniture,
against which We tumblcd over aud un-
der which be knocked ~ In the dark.
ness, with the precision and fore. of
trip.hammer. lie seemed Ia ha,ea eats
slght, aud knew the room thoroughly,
aud the way he damned ~ was 80 un-
expected that We got confused ani losi
our reckoning Ia trying TO get out Of
that Internal room sgaln.
IL don't believe one of u biz him
once. know that after had caught q
terrific rigli.hsnder on the tip ~ NV
nose, which sent the backward over an
awfully angular coal-.cuttle, I kept o.
my hand. aud knees In blind search
for the door, with the blool pouring
Into INV mouth anil over nv shirt front.
lie hit u. with fsts like hams, b. threw
chair. st ia, he kicked %. when We went
down With hi bare toes, whlch SCENE
q. h,ri q. iron; be jumped on our .tom
achs With heels ~ ide toughby running
barefoot on hl. native shingly belchc.,
,e N ,ul-,i u., he pulled our hair out, hr
SCRATCHED us, he loosened our teeth, he
broke our noses, he joggied our most
intern Il organs, be utterly demorilil-i
"a. thi. xhlrlwinl from VI ,in-, an wh-n
at la.t We hid got out ~ hi. horrid d"n.
more dead thin alive, and had had tim
Ia collect our shattered senses aud
made q hastv estim ,te 81 our cuts anil
abrislons, I SAID,
"'rhc Maine fellow must have gone
out, l,oys, and left gorilla In his bed,
instead
"Ilut Just then We heard that vicious
frr.hmsn call out with mockins
laugh, 'Now go % bed. little men. anil
come sgiin some either night when YOU
are rested. This hsfln's heaps of fun
"l,ut We lad decided that the sport
was unmanly, anyway, and not proper
sort of thing for Young gentlemen TO
engage In"