St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-03-04

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who, who? Hoo Lun. Who loves
Linski? Who, who, who7 Hoo Lunl"
| Linski was Disguised, resigned from
the university, and disappeared.
'fWell. here 1t isn't mlayear Exams
| yet, and the good ole class of Nineteen
| Eighteen's already lost 81 member"
said Fred Mitchell 81 guess we can
bear the break-upv
II guess So Ramsey nssented.
THAT Linski might just as well stayed
here, though
"Why?"
He couldn't do any harm here. He'll
| prob'ly get more people to listen to
him In cities where there's so many
new immigrants and all such that
don't know anything, comm In oil tbs
| time
"Oh, we'll" said Fred "What do
we care what happens to Chicago
Come on, let's behave real wild, au!
60 on over to the TERRA and get US a
couple Of egg sandwiches and sass
prilly."
Ramsey was willing.
After the strain Of the s'ni0-year
Exams In February, the chunls lived
a free-hearted life. They had settled
into the ways Of their world; they had
grown used to 1t, and 1t had grown
used to them; there was no longer any
ignominy In being q freshman. They
Il
times rioted harln!essly about the
streets Of the town. Ii the evenings
they visited their fellows and brethren
and were visited IN turn; hoTseplay
prevailed, but collegiate gossip mad its
turn. and sometimes they looked &c
far ahead as to talk vaguely CT their
plans for prof 81 business
though TO freshman t!:s co!.rerfs1st
an almost untEinkably distant pros
pect II guess I'll so IN with my IA
ther, In the wholesale drug business"
said Fred. "My married brother al
ready is IN the firm, and suppose
they'll give me a shoW-send me out
Oh the road year or two first, maybe,
! !
some little cutie and settle down.
What you goin' to do, Ramsey? Go to
law school, and then come back and
60 In your fathers Officer
II don't know. Guess So"
1t was always Fred who did most Of
the talking; Ramsey was quiet. Fred
told the frat seniors that Ramsey
was developing q whole lot these
days." and he told Ramsey himself
that he could see a 'big change" In
him, adding that the improvement was
probably due to- Ramsey's having
passed through terrible trials like
that debate"
Ramsey kept to their rooms more
than his con1rade did, one reason for
this do1nesticity being that he 'had
to study longer than Fred did, to keep '
up" and another reason may have
been q greater shyness than Fred pos
sessed-if, indeed, Fred possessed any
shyness at all. For Fred was CHEEKY
spirit difficult to abash, and by the
coming Of spring knew all OF the best
looking girl students In the place
knew them well enough. 1t appeared,
to speak Of them not merely by their
first names but by authorizations Of
these. He had become fashions sprlg,
q "fusser" and butterfly. and he re-
preached his roommate for stunning
the ladies.
"Well, the truth is, Tred," said Ram
sey one day, responding darkly-'well,
you see the truth is, Fred, I've had
--a-Tye had an experience
So, only, did he refer to Nilla
Fred said no more; and It was COM
pretended between them that the past
need never be definitely referred to
again, but that it stood between Ram
sey and any entertainment to be OBJ
tanned Of the gcntler but less trust
worthy sex And when other brethren
Of the frat would have pressed Ram
sey to Join them in various frivolous
enterprises concerning "co-eds," or to
be shared by "co-eda,.' fred thought It
better to explain to them privately
TALL BEING sacred among brethren) how
Ramsey's life, so far as Girls went
had been tcyed with by one now 4
Married Woman.
This created a great deal Of respect
for Ramsey. It became understood
everywhere that he vas woman
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