The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-24

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We're not trying to-" said Saunders.
| were just calling your attention To
| them. You know. we've been limiting a
| long time on some Of them"
you were sassy TO n professor In
| day. continued Saunders, after giving
me plenty Of chance. WHY"
Because ] was fool. | guess"
Give him ten," shouted some one.
Il object" growled Hoghuum 'You
| can't spank n man for telling the truth"
IF you don't mind" said. "Id like
To take few for that professor BUSH
ness. 1t will make me feel better"
30 they gave them TO me. They also
gave me hre for crticising the food and
ten for talking about my fathers bank.
and dozen for being condescending to
outsiders, and a few miscellaneous
swats for small crimes. Then Saunders
looked at me severely and pointed TO
the blackboard.
There was mirrored to myself
lhcohslderate IA punster," ''lazy."
lmpudent,' "boastful," "condescending"
ana complaining" There was Pctey
simmons as others saw him-the Petey
Simmons whom day before I cou,l
scarcely think Of without a reverent
admiration for the works of nature.
freshman who had wasted three months
learning all the things he shouldn't;
l'ctey simmons, the college Joke, the
campus nuisance, the loud noise on the
streets. the pest of the chapter house
| had always been Petey Simmons. an
understood consumer of perfectly good
oxygen. but some one had patted me
on the head few months ago and It
had swelled-heavens, how II had
Swelled
Suddenly all my grandiose doings II
those insane months rose up viv!dy
before me. ] gagged at the thought ~
them. oh, how sick I had been But
was better now The swelling was GO
Ing down. Explode dynamite bomb in
almost any swelling and it will be ma
terially reduced.
You wouldn't care to say n word.
would you, freshman" said Saunders
after a long silence.
| got up, very siiily.
Il guess not" stammered. "I don't
know enough to say anything except
eXcept-thaHk you"
"Hurrah." said every one. That jolt
was too much l cried
Then they let me go upstairs to bed
and called down Wansworth. who was
freshman, too, and very far gone in
II. The next morning he ate very little
more than / did and acted like man
who had fallen 100000 miles out OF
blissful dream, landing very hard.
But we never contided In each other.
When you take a young man who is
contented with himself and reduce him
TO the mangled remains of everything
he had imagined himself to he, you
can't expect him to recover at once
| was quite low and miserable for
week. Every little thing that | had
stepped carefully over during my
Colossus days rose up and lowered
above me, and kept me stretching my
neck and lodging like an ant under
lodge parade.
Suddenly Slwash was a mighty col
lege again, as it had been when / wa
in high school. and 1t was full of bust
nesslike young giants who would have
to be encouraged to tolerate me. But
finally | did something that made me
feel better. 1t was lonely around the
house-not because the boys wouldn't
notice me, but because l had to keep
so quiet TO keep them from doing Il.
SO | put on my hat about Q O'Clock
one evening and w-nt down to Mark
Smiths room. | knocked timidly. Two
weeks before l would have kicked the
door in.
Come in" said Mark.
! edged in cautiously and said
Hello"
oh" said Mark, looking at me
sharply, Hello"
! went all the way In and stood wait
ing Nothing happened.
I'm back again." I said finally.
80 SOON" said Mark.
Yes" l said, its happened
What's happened?"
What was coming to me-"
OH"
edged over to chair and sat down.
Sure it's a cure?" asked Mark sus-
piciously,
Say" I remarked with emphasis. "if
you see any signs of It coming back
VIII you kindly take baseball bat and
fiatten it?"
Yep" said Mark. "Iave you got
your Livy pounded out?"
tCOpyriOhf. 1919