The Yale expositor., 1913-10-09

Boggs, lin violation OF his Official
OATH" OF bulldog which had bitten
Albert Boyer, and thrown his mother
into nervous prostration.
This epidemic OF "worthlessness and
sentimentality" was spreading outside
the district, as evidenced by an ex-
cerpt found in the dogs possession
! from the upper rear elevation of the
Sunday trousers OF Boliver Fromme,
living in District No. 4. Progress in
| the studies of the boys confined TO
amatory poetry and pugilism, both IN
related to their life work. Iowa, My
Iowa, Major Byers' stirring lyric, had
been supplanted by Maryland, My
| Maryland, in school singing. Chester
! Boggs, the director, refused TO re-
ceive complaints, and was condemned
as equally affected with the dis
ease, and most probably he was
a "Mooner" himself There was a GER
tifcate OF Doctor Dilworthy of Teal
Lake as TO the existence of many
cases of extreme mental exaltation
accompanied by explosive and fulmi-
nant cerebral disturbances traceable
TO mediate or immediate association
with one Roberta Lee Frayn. an indi-
vidual seemingly possessed OF an
abnormal power in the way of causing
obsessions, fixed ideas, aberrant
cranio-spinal functionings, and )cranial
tempcsts. in those of her associates re-
sembling her in the matter of age, and
differing from her in social habits,
hereditary constitution, and sex"
sank back in my chair Mortified,
with a sinking in the region OF the
epigastric plexus.
I'VE kind o. thought Oc," said Mr..
Middlekauff, that tibet would hold
yeh f'r while"
saw the muddled political relations
with which this imbroglio teemed. and
chung to delay as my sole hope.
81 am inexpressibly shocked" said
I, land as soon as We can meet with
the defendant and the director"
What" shrieked Mr.. Middlekauff
Her present! After what them pa
pers says? And everybody follerin'
her. IL she jest smiles, like can arter
salt! Why, dad ding me, II I'd trust
myself f'r more'n a smile OF two. She'll
bamboozle the hull thing II she's there
| blieve you've got 1t, you oonceited
young sprout! No, sir; decide this
thing now!"
81 regret the necessity" said I. "of
asking time TO get the opinion OF the
county attorney, and Toto"
mot by a dunn sight" roared Mr.
Middlekaun. We'll see what the
court has to say on this. An when
you're up f'r election agin, come
round, an we'll consider 1t fr while
an then you won't know you're run
mini"
was torn by conflicting emotions
} when they went away. / knew thai
: Middlekauff was a man OF influence
was not averse to seeing Chester re
buked for his fatuous behavior, and
for tempting me to a deviation from
strict duty. l felt that in taking my
stand with the "Mooners" | might bt
siding with the heaviest body OF voter:
: after all. By these whiting winds o.
the mind was l bafiled, finding no res
in my works on didactics and peda
gogics, wondering what Middlekauf
would do-until all doubts were set
| tied by the filing OF the case OF The
School Board of Teal Lake versus
Frayn; and in a few days 1t came OF
, for trial before Judge Worthington.
: Chester telephoned, asking to se'
) me. He came in looking thinner thai
I l had ever seen him.
; do you know" said he, that thi
= case old Middlekauffs got plugged VI
comes off this morning."
= Having been summonsed by writ o
subpoena" said l severely, II an
3 aware that your wilfulness in placini
: an untried importation In charge o
our school, regardless OF her unfitnese
8 or OF my political well-being. is thi
4 morning bearing its legitimate fruit il
Z the hearing which comes on-not off
= And l hope your lack of consideration
for the school system, so largel
o wrapped up in my career, will"
y That Chester was temporarily insan
Is clear. He few at me, seized m
d trachea In his iron hands, compresse
y 1t 80 as greatly to impede respiration
o and knocked my head against the wal
IL using incoherently certain technica
terms he had learned at Ames.
8 "Shut upl" he cried. "You duple
y -polyphase-auto - back-actio
t. d-wound-multipola ASS
/ Shut up!"
g An anatomical chart on the wall pr'
d served my head. and l retained m
3. self-possession. When he let me dow
n took my station on the other side {
table and looked him In the ey'
It strongly willing that he quiet down.
l. Forgive me, &C." said he humbl.
a IT promised myself eight years ago nj
r. to lick you any more! Pardon me-"
4 forgave him, and we have eve
b. since remained reconciled. He e.
K planned that he wanted to consult q
d. to methods of concealing from Mis-
O.. Frayn the nature of the suit
D. Am l to understand" said !, "thi
" she does not know that the reli'
y. sought is her expulsion from til
ID SCHOOL,"