The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-07-13
A Graduates Story
Original

teii me thai story of your student life.
IN twenty-one today"
We'll. Frank. IN keep my promise
When ! WAS i'll college | made the &C.
Ilafntance of a girl we will call Nam
y. You see. our mother might be
Jealous. and | wouldn't like her to
now the girls real anne, Nancy anu
kept getting Spoonier and %Spoonier.
md her fatler getting on to the stu
,tion. fOrba de me the house. 1t WASN'T
hat lie had any objection to me except
hat | WAS only a college boy with two
years of study before me. sid a
curse in agriculture. TO lie taken aft
II graduation. AS for Nancy. he pro
rosed That she should Spend three o.
our years more on her education Per
laps if lie had let us alone we might
nave got over il in tine witi3It nal
n= ninni"S of ourselves. As ii was
ne drove Us into one of the ~SillieSt per
fornlanccS III re"ord-an clnpement.
THE time we chose for this ~absurditv
was i'll midwinter, just after one of the
heaviest SnowStorTns we had had IN
years. Our plan WAS for me To pick
up Nancy on the road. take her in
my sleigh TO the Junction. get Spliced
there. drive her back and say nothing
about the mattcr til we had finished
our r~lutTtinn. Nancy WIS at the place
Of rCntczSrUs all done ZIP in firs and
with Il pair of checks which the frost
tin"el VITA the hue of red apples.
Sh" iumrci into the sleigh. | pulleI
Up the ODE HInI we started
Nancy old me that Ter father was
suspicious If her, and she thought he
had been watchin" her. so l had bet
er drive .,.ettyNfast. This / did SO
ar as l could. but the Dad bctwecn
Dur college TOWN and tie junction is
billy. and the snow was deem and I'M
roddcn With occasional bad drifts. So
.)ur progress was necessarily slow.
Nancy kept looking back uncasily. and
when we reached the top of a rise
,hout n mile from the town Nancy.
upon CHANGING to the rear. gave my
irm Il grip. eXclaimfng:
".Oh. my goodness gracioust'
Turning my head. | saw II sleigh
1~escendin" tile next Slope behind us
drawn Hy two horses. who were Sallop-
ing through the snow, scattering it like
spray. OF course | knew we were fol
lowed, and. giving the horse Il cut. We
started down our decline. scattering
snow in the same fashion. But I
knew that n horse WAS no match for
wo horses with an equal load. and it
occurred 10 me that our plan would he
,iprrd unless | could hit upon a STRAIT
gem.
".Nancy.' l said. I'm coins to drop
-ou in Il diff
What for:' she asked.
"'I'H do it when your father is on
he other side of the rise and cam see
Put what will l do there
"'Iic low till he has passed. then
yalk home. He hasn't seen who is in
his sleigh: the back is too high. and
he robe behind is above our heads.
"'.AIl right said Nancy. This looks
Ike Il good place we're coming to-.
Il Il, ed up beside "A drift more than
an feet deep and. that | should not
low any tracks. took Nancy up and
,ssed her feet foremost into it. The
aow WAS light. She went down three
uarters of her length and wriggled
,vn T. q rrst of the way. | drove o
I'd wEcn | got to tie top of the next
i'll Looked back. In. II few minutes the
'1rsuing sleigh appeared. and | knew
ilstt u ttSA Stth hibt'tflLtS ,
kept up Il good pace. hoping to draw
Ell father IN so far that he wouldut
IN against Ter on the way back. I led
i'm as far a< the bridge, when l slowed
n and let MIN overtake me. When he
NV no one in the sleigh he looked
omexhat mystitied for IA moment. then
aid s~avageiy:
.Yo yodng rascal. What have you
rot under tnat robeT
"'Nothin".
"-YeS. you have. o students think
-ou're Il match for Satan i'll deHiltry.
Dut you can't fool me Pull up h
ODE
Il drew up tho robe so that he could
&c tie bottom of the sleigh. He was
hun*erStrHck But. too d~isgruntled TO
t~polooize for his mistake. he turned
bout without a word and drove back
o town. lis -four miles between the
own and the junction. and since | had
lropped Nancy a mile from the town !
new she would nave plenty Of time u
ct back home,
When / saw her again she told me
hat when her father came in he said
nothing to her about her ride. but later
tsked her where she had been.
Ito Aunt Sarah's.' she answered
1.-The little liar.!' put i'll Eleanor Not
tins.
"Liar?" exclaimed the mother in
%Ifsnantly. Not at all. She stopped at
Aunt Sarah's on her way home so hat
Aunt Saral, would confirm what b
Intended to tell her father.
why. mother" asked Eleanor. what
10 you know about it,"
The mother. with a vexed smile. bent
again Owe her work.
"She ought &c know" said the IA
Their. with a twinkle in his eye Shes