CHAPTER XIX

AN INCIDENT

"Eleven o'clock," said Crocker, as they went out of college. "I don't feel sleepy; shall we stroll along the 'High' a bit?"

Shelton assented; he was too busy thinking of his encounter with the dons to heed the soreness of his feet. This, too, was the last day of his travels, for he had not altered his intention of waiting at Oxford till July.

"We call this place the heart of knowledge," he said, passing a great building that presided, white and silent, over darkness; "it seems to me as little that, as Society is the heart of true gentility."

Crocker's answer was a grunt; he was looking at the stars, calculating possibly in how long he could walk to heaven.

"No," proceeded Shelton; "we've too much common-sense up here to strain our minds. We know when it's time to stop. We pile up news of Papias and all the verbs in 'ui' but as for news of life or of oneself! Real seekers after knowledge are a different sort. They fight in the dark--no quarter given. We don't grow that sort up here."

"How jolly the limes smell!" said Crocker.

He had halted opposite a garden, and taken hold of Shelton by a button of his coat. His eyes, like a dog's, stared wistfully. It seemed as though he wished to speak, but feared to give offence.

"They tell you," pursued Shelton, "that we learn to be gentlemen up here. We learn that better through one incident that stirs our hearts than we learn it here in all the time we're up."

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. how did the limes smell?
2. who said so?
3. did he halt across for something?
4. what?
5. was someone with him?
6. who?
7. did he grab shelton?
8. by the arm?
9. what did he grab?
10. on his shirt?
11. where?
12. what time was it?
13. were they leaving somewhere?
14. where?
15. was crocker tired?
16. who was staying somewhere until July?
17. where was he staying?
18. who grunted?
19. what was he doing after he grunted?

Numbered answers:
1. jolly
2. Crocker.
3. Yes
4. a garden,
5. Yes
6. Shelton
7. Yes
8. No
9. a button
10. No
11. his coat
12. Eleven o'clock
13. Yes
14. the college
15. No
16. Shelton
17. Oxford
18. Crocker
19. looking at the stars