Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-30
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looked as if she could be perfectly de
lightfMl il She felt that waN

llgltful II She felt that way.
] found Out what church the
~Scrosgses f~reauentcd the next week
and decided to shift my attack. IL
couldn't associate in college with
MarthaZl decided that | would cali
her that to myself because | liked the
name-I would go out and use a
church in a -blooded fashion for
the purpose. l went TO two church
socials and found Martha at he sec
ond one 1t seemed to me she was
perhaps N thirty-second of a degree
more cordial in her greeting-at any
rate She bowed to me before / logged
her attention-and / made the most
OF III. l tialied around with her and
behind her for half IN hour. fighting
my way through mobs Of girl friends
! never saw a girl so cursed With Girl
friends-and after having gotten two
distinct laughs from her by a line OF
ak that would have reduced one OF
the Browning Hall beauties 10 help
less mirth i ans right out and asked
her If i couldn't walk home with her,
My knees shook when l did it.
WHY, there isn't the slightest use
OF that, Mr.. Simmons she said kindly.
Ralph Madison lives next door and
he'll take care of me-"
Ralph Madison was a town student
Il sophomore whose only prominent
point was his teeth. He Was a sissy
and q nlncompoop. and when he walked
carelessly up and said Ready, Mar
Una? l could have bitten him in two.
They went off together like old and
well-worn friends. and went out into
the night and planned murder and ar
son for three hours.
anyway, that ended it. I'd laid my
pride down before Miss Scroygs. and
she had not only walked on it, but had
wiped her feet on it. I'd tried to make
a friend and companion out of q girl
VITO would probably never have an
other chance to mingle with a real
masculine mind And what was the
result? SHE had laughed at me. Very
well. would give up my large minded
charming girls of the school. had
been a fool for neglecting them, any
way. They We're, at least. Kind and APP
preciative.
For IL week or more l soused myself
in society n attended the Kappa kap
party with tremendous success. not less
than eight girls confessing 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 the
library between classes-not in the
hope of talking with Martha-I
wouldn't have tried that again for a
- because it seemed kind of
homelike i'm there. and / liked to watch
her studying with her raincoat and
hlIl Osi WY q lVS VI lIldU L
supposed would he possible. i got CON
siderably interested in English history,
too. while l WAS wasting time there.
had to amuse myself some Way-and l
did a lot OF reading i'm the hope that
some day : could get up unexpectedly
and recfte to young Professor Harris
until he choked me off. 1t would be
such a stunning surprise to him, COM
ngf from me. I chuckled at the thought
of it. So l filled up on Macauley until
i WAS "a wQ1Ejno hinorny ,hr rf IXYil1{at,
OF Orange. and one day when Professor
Harris ordered me up to do my usual
tight Wire balancing act between a
hunk and a "passable' l sailed into the
English for their attitude to Dutch Billy
ike q prosecuting attorn. ~ a%rraigning
{. chicken thief.
Professor Harris had only escaped
from England about two generations
back. and he b~ristled up when | tried
TO explain how sweet it 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-in a perfectly polite and
Well-bred manner. of course-the Eng
fish are always polite. SO we had a
little 10-minute bicker. and every time
Professor Harris got a hammer lock
on me L managed to fall back Il gen.
Grafton or two and grab up some other
English political crime which l had
run across in the last week. So l came
oNS NS 0>"A aStIOaS 4lICi0 lioti viz
shoulder on the mat. but pretty much
worried-for Professor Harris was de-
ternlined to avenge his precious Eng
land, and / saw where it was up to p.
Simmons to keep on stocking in history
at the rate of one quarto volume a day.
1 hurried over to the library after
class and had just gotten Hume and
Macauley stacked UP. one on each side.
when l 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 l hadn't gotten more
than a page or two worried down when
some one dropped n note going by. 1t
was from Miss Scroggs.
'Three cheers for the Dutch" it read.
"Re-enforcements coming by forced
marches"
I smiled across to her and waved my
rah for our side" and Soc ct tn UNI"
and other things. 1t made me feel
mighty good and l decided. when we
ran out of Dutch complications in Eng
fish history. to jump in OF the French
side. IL necessary. and keep up the
fight. After all. it was a lot of fun to
joust with a professor. 1t was as ex-
citing as baseball.
Someone sat down by me and l closed
the book. 1t was Miss Scroggs. She
was just a plain girl. as 1 have care
went 80 dotty n nervous all over Just
because she came over to ak to me.
l suppose 1t was u
At least that was the only reason I
could discover.
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