The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-09-07
(By NJ. H. ThOrpe.)

were getting ready TO adjourn last
evening
There's always a motive behind any
a joke because theirs a lot Of good
natered fun in il while others enjoy get
ting a fellow in fix and leaving him
there. Doc Slater belonged to the
latter class; he always went after 4
poor freshman with malice afOre-
thOught and he nad a reputation and
l might say he deserved it, Of being
the worst enemy the freshman class
mad on the campus. And it took
green freshman named BOggs, from
Arizona, TO call the turn on him"
This sounded like a good beginning
to the president, so he quietly motioned
to the waiter TO fill up the stems. and
the bunch, taking their cue from The
president, settled themselves cOmfOr-
tably and their chairs and looked
eXpeCtantIy at Barnett. Barnett re-
moved his hat, and withdrawing his
pipe and pouch from his pocket, went
on:
Yes, sir; Doc Slater ally enjoyed
seeing d poor devil in Il hole more
than he enjoyed square meal. He
never was known TO laug out loud
although his pranks with unsuspectng
freshmen made the college laugh heart
lily for weeks at a time. When some
poor fool Of Il freshie would come il
from 4 private party to which he had
been given a fake invitation by Slater
and would storm around, wanting 20
kill someone Doc would simply re-
mark to the furious freshman, It's ali
in your training, freshie.
Doc would inveigIe a new student
into accompanying him on a fruit
stealing expedition, then put anOthc~
student next who would cop the fresh
man in the act. He would release him
on condition that he would apologize
10 President Andrews the next morn
ing
The next morning, bright and early
the freshman, who had lain awake Ill
night in mortal terror, would timidy
enter the august presence Of the presi-
dent of the university and bluShinSly
and haltingly tell of his fatal misstep.
OF course, he would tell him thai it
was his first, and that it would De his
last. The kindly old preXy wOuG
worm the whole tale Of pOaching from
sin no more, and incidentally that the
university employed no police to guard |
the sacred preserves.
"On one occasion Doc got a fresh
freshman who was keen for some
sort Of prank, to go with him to swipe
the prexy's goose. They waited until
the dead of night. then quietly stole
up to the yard where the goose was
kept 1t was inclOsed by this chlken
wiring, and was fully seven feet high.
Doc got the freshman to go inside at
ter the goose while he guarded the |
gate.
E'NO sooner did the freshman get |
hold of the goose than it gave out a |
mighty sQuawk and Doc quickly locked |
the gate on the outside and bOlted. The |
preXy caught the freshman frantlcally |
trying to scale the wire inclOsure with |
one hand holding in the other the limp |
and lifeless form of the pet goose. He |
got fired, and Doc looked sorry when |
he told him and said that the gate had |
z sDring lock on it, but we always mad |
our suspicious
The breezy proprietor Of the grill |
room came in and whispered TO the |
president that it was 11:55 O'Clock, |
and would the gentlemen wish to or |
der anything more?" Williams, Virgin
ia, 80. who was drinking milk and |
yichv. whispered no more but Sand |
.ers Stamford 90 gathered up the stems |
quietly. Actions speak louder than |
words, and they were soon returned |
brimming over with creamy UmOaCner |
Or some other German brand.
"AbuOt this time BoggS blew in from |
Arizona" continued the speaker. He !
was long, lank, and cadaverous, VITA |
an expressionless face and pale blue |
eyes-iust such a fellow as Williams |
would fight shy of in a poker game He |
attended to his own business, never |
opened his face, and l suppose that's
why Doc Slater felt that he ought 10 |
be given run for his money.
The lanky freshman had violated no !
college traditions, nor had he talked |
back at any upper classmen that we |
could learn of, but Doc just didn't ike !
his looks. So he called the bunch to- |!
gether in his room one night ana auS-
rested that Freshman BOggs be taught |
his position.' He said, which none OF /
us believed, but which we were all |
ready to believe, that the Arizona
freshman had defied the upper class
men, and in the course OF conVerSa
ton with another loyal freshman had |
declared he would give any bunch of |
sophs a run for their white alley II |
they dared to tackle him.
cat this startling information OF |
treason in our midst, we all mustered
up mock indignation and decided tnat
Freshman Boggs should be taken out |
that very night and doused in the lake. |
Doc at this point ventured the opinion !
that that was only the ordinary peE-
atty. and that a case like that OF |
Boggs' deserved something more dras-
tic. He suggested that 1t was his ma
-ture and deliberate Judgment that the |
freshman should be taken out snlpe |
hunting.
Ever been snipe hunting?" querled |
barnett as he relighted his pipe and |