The sun., 1903-12-06
HIS TWO JAGS.
A College Graduates Two Experienced
With SOme Good SamaritanS.

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With SOme Good Samaritans.
After a meeting OF one Of the college
alumni associations the other night group
OF graduates sat at q table at one Of the up
town hotels and told stories Of their under
graduate days. Among others mild
hammered young man with rosy checks.
who had kept very quiet. was called on for
q story.
1T may not interest you fellows at all, '
he said, because I am far from being
gay youth. and never was one In my COL
lege days. It's tale Of two jags. and about
the only two real thing jags ever had.
THE first got while was In Paris,
stranger in a strange land. l don't know
just how 1t came about, but I suppose
was lonesome and had to have something
to cheer me up.
"An alone, wandered Of to a cafe and
slipped absinths until the world around
me took on brighter hue. HIhad stopped
there probably nothing would have hap
pened. but didn't, and as the world grew
brighter and moro frolicsome 1 began to
fade away and eventually l went asleep.
At least found out later that l went to
while / slept crowd Of jee1ng French.
men gathered around me and had fun at
INV expense. OF course, knew nothing
! about It, but they were having what they
thought was an awfully, good time when
three boys from our rival oonese came
aThey saw that was an American In a
pretty bad fI, so they just threw aside that
French crowd OF jeerers and earned me
away. / don't know how long or % how far
| they walked me around Paris, but IL was
some hours before came to.
sThen they poured black coffee into me
until was able to find my way PACK TO the
hotel was stopping at without the AID OF q
guide. or course, ! thanked them ma and tod to-,
selves and told me who they. were,
Il eot back to New York about two weeks
after that and went down to college. With
about dozen fellows In my class came
up to town to celebrate football victory
over the college my Paris rescuers belonged
Along toward the early hours Of the
morning fen by the wayside and lost
my classmates. I was very tired and de-
cided that I had to have & sleep, sleep; ,,arn nhe
so i picked it out Tor my bed and rested
my head on the curb for pillow.
when awoke was in room IN one OF
the big Broadway hotels. / rubbed my
eyes trying to figure 1t all out ana thsn
There, sitting on bed in another part
of the room, were the three chaps who had
saved me in Paris. They were grinning
and watching me with amusement and
seemed to be having the time Of their lives.
/ looked at them blankly for some time and
then they explained.
-They had been doing the town in an
effort to minimize their sorrow over the
defeat Of their team and ran into me few
minutes after 1 had rested my weary head
on the Broadway curb. They saw at once
that was the same fellow they had rescued
in Paris and they decided to do 1t again.
.They rubbed my ears and shook me
| in an effort to get me awake, but finding
that was hopeless they carried me on to
the hotel and put me to bed. They even
undressed me and fixed me snug under the
blankets.
| "A few minutes later, on looking through b
my clothes for money to buy drink. ! found
that I had only Ave cents. They insisted
on buying breakfast for me and giving mo
enough money to get back to college,
| "Of course, I've seen those fellows since,
and we have had many good time TO-
to stand for deal Of joshing. One good
thing about it, however. they never told
my friends In college, or life would have
been unbearable for me-"