The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-17
George Fitch Tells How an Ingrowing
Crouch Made Petey Simmons
the Happiest of Men

neglecting them. anyway. They were.
ut least, kind and appreciative.
For q week or more / soused myself
in society and attended the Kappa kap
party with tremendous success, not less
than eight girls Confcssing that they
could die dancing with me. But didn't
enjoy myself. Somehow society seemed
as unsatisfactory as a fifth dish of Ice
cream. / got to hanging around tho
library between classes, not in the hope
of talking with Martha wouldn't have
tried that again for a farm. but because
II seemed kind of homelike in there, and
| liked 10 watch her studying with her
raincoat and tam on-they became her
more than / supposed would be pos
sibc.
I got considerably interested In Eng
lish history too while / was wasting
time there. I had to amuse myself some
way and / did lot of reading in the
hope that some day i could get up I'M
eXpectedly and recite to young Prof.
Harris Until he choked me off. 1t would
he such q stunning surprise to him.
coming from me. 1 chuckled at the
thought of 1t. SO filled up on
Macaulay until I was walking
biography of William of Orange, and
one day when Prof. Harris ordered me
up to do my usual tight wire balancing
act between a funk and a "passable" I
sailed into the English for their attitude
To Dutch Billy like a prosecuting attor-
ney arraigning a chicken thief.
Prof. Harris had only escaped from
England about two generations back
and he brstled up when I tried to
explain how sweet 1t was In the beef
boilers to invite William over with his
army and then after using them to
boot said army out of the country as
| a nuisance-ln a perfectly polite and
well bred manner. of course--the Eng
fish are always polite. SO we had a
little ten minute blcker and every time
, Prof Harris got n hammer lock on me
| | managed to fall back a generation or
two and grab up some other English
political crime which 1 had run across
| in the last week.
SO came out the deal without more
| than one shoulder on the mat but
pretty much worrled-for Prof Harris
| was determined to avenge his precious
| England, and l saw where IL was up to
| r. Simmons to keep on stocking in his
| tory at the rate of one quarto volume q
| day.
| | hurried over to the library after
class and had just got Hume and
Macaulay stacked up, one on each side,
| when / looked up and saw Miss Scroggs
| sitting near me and looking at me. She
| ducked her head with her peculiar little
| smile and bow. 1t warmed me clear to
my shoes. I bowed back and went to
| work all cheered up. But | hadn't got
more than a page or two worried down
when some one dropped a note going
by. 1t was from Miss Scroggs.
Three cheers for the Dutch" It read.
"Reenforcements coming by forced
| marches"
/ smiled across to her and waved my
hand around my head. meaning "Hur-
rah for our side" and "Soc ct tn um."
and other things. 1t made me feel
mighty good and I decided when we ran
out Of Dutch complications in English
history to jump in on the French side
| IL necessary and keep up the fight.
After all 1t was lot of fun to joust
| with a professor. 1t was as exciting
as baseball.
Some one sat down by me and I
| closed the book. 1t was Miss Scroggs.
She was just a plain girl. as l have
carefully explained. and I can't see why
went so dotty and nervous all over
just because she came over to talk to
me. suppose It was because
| At least that was the only reason I
could discover.
"I've come over to ask II you've ever
read Motley on William" she asked.
Hes dandy"
"I'll get him now" ! said promptly.
got up, but hesitated a minute. While
was gone she would go away OF
course. decided wouldn't go away.
Then thought I'd better. Then I
didn't know what to think. I looked
down at Martha pleadingly. She looked
up and didn't bat an eye.
"Ill find the place for you when you
come back" she said.
Copyright, 1919
Merit SunddU-CurinD on Suggestion:
II relieves Petey simmons Of painful
enlargement OF the head.