Year: 1872

wherein L0e pirate captain WHO A'
remarked, vast essential to the plot
but required by the rules Of art said
"Oho, my diamOnd-hilted spyglass,
no less than seven times and all thu
principal characters were poisoned a.
the outset, "tO give full swing to tht
tragic" as he said. Nothing like
appeasing the mueker element wheI
YOU write,D he said. "What does tn,
the mucker element delight in
BloOd.D


He set the table in such 4 roar, tina
the steward had to stop him. and ad-
} wise him to retire; which he did side.
wise, with covered face and uncertain
step, after the style of the rejected
lover in comedy


After supper 4 crowd OF fellow:
went round TO Jacks room as usual
But tonight he refused 10 try hi:
hand at chess and even dropped :
challenge TO be "cleaned Outn in the
most rapid and mysterious of games
California Jack, and went to reading
intently. One Of the others LOOKED
over his shoulder, and read aloud:


MANY an evening by the waters did WI


watch the stately ships,


And our spirits rushed tOgetner al The touch


ing ofthe lips"


Beautiful, " murmured Jack.


There was q general laugh as the
reader said, "bad symptom to appreei.
ate that"


"Well," said Jack, dts safe thing
TO read any way. The hero behaves
IN a sensible manner. He knows
that one love lost doesn't prevent his
trying again, and that he may YET
have a chance to pass down that neat
little property which he calls AIlthea.
ges to the next heir. / detest those
French writes who make their dis,
appointed lovers stand in the sea
till the tide comes over them. If
couldn't get up q more rational hero
than that, I'd never write a novel.
Why, it's all imagination, any way.
When a fellow finds that all is over
and he must part, and he'll be a rover,
to the serious detriment of his heart,
and all that, you don't suppose that
there isn't somebody else that would
do just as well for him, if not better ?
1t doesn't injure anything vital in
him, as it does when you shoot him.
A man may die of Imagination, ifyOu
can nuke him believe that he's sick.
Just so man may suffer mentally
from a diseased imagination, and he
never sees till afterwards how foolish
that imagination is. The practical
English novels in which everybody
behaves exactly like very ordinary
persons in real life, are better; though
10 be sure, some OF them grind along
rather slowly"


'The trouble isn't so much that the
novel-mill grinds slowly, as that it
grinds exceeding SMALL" said Bob.
''But don't you see that you reduce
all our affections and griefs to one
dead level of empty imagination >"
aust So" said Jack. fThere isn't
anything real about it; and almost
| everybody sees it so, once or twice in
I his life, and tries to forget it"


IF you're going into the Diogenes
line" said one of the visitors, "I've
got tub I'd like to sell you. The
| bottom isn't sound, but the sides are
strong; and that's all you want for a
proof. You could keep it tight by
taking a bath in it occasionally. BY
the way, if the old Athenian had
used his tub for that purpose OCCASION
ally, perhaps he wouldn't have been
AAAoAAAAAAADllANs IAAAAAh - LlAAAAboN-
pher in a tub in some good position,
say the corner between Harvard and
Hollis, would be an interesting feat
ure of the yard. Think how delight
full to have the ladies put on their
glasses, and say, "Was the dear dis
gushing old fellow once student here?
How interestingl Do tell us all about
him !"


81 shall certainly have to get new
tub" said Jack, entering heartily in-
to the project; 81 never could live in
my tin hat tub. Just think how the
little muckeTs would m2ke il ring
with stones But then could usa
that InPracucables seat TO keep my IA
tions in"


The idea seemed to restore him to
the hight OF good humOr and he lay
in his customary position on the Grip
pie lounge, gently kicking with his
top boots as before, when lOud knock
was followed by a youth got up in
gorgeous style.


"Well, Charlie, what's up?" said
Bob.


''Been to make my party call on old
Smooth" said Charley, "and he's out.
thought I'd drop in and tell you
that nOW's your time to call"


Two or three of the visitors rose
hastily, and were about leaving.


"My children said JACK, in griev-
ed voice, sis this the way you heed
your instruction about economy in
labor? feel panied to think of such
waste of force. There's no need in
but ones going. He can take all the
cards, and walk up and down past the
house, and leave them all, one after
another"


"But the servant will notice it,D
objected somebody.


The servant thinks all the stu
dents are just alike, and its easy
enough to change your voice, so as
not to be recognized. If none of YOU
want to- 60, by JOve, I'll go myselfW


''But you didn't go to the reception
and don't even know the professor"
said Bob.


'The Professor isn't in" said Jack,
putting on his overcoat. "NOw, you
fellows write your cards, if you have
not any with you, and Pll take
them"


"Why, Jack, you haven't got any
collar on and those tOp.bOOts ~


"HOw many times must 1 tell you,
my child" said Jack patiently, "that
the professor is not at home?"


So he put on his big Overcoat with
a cape, and his fur gloves; and Bob
settled his beaver on, after giving his
hair parting rumple. He was just
starting when idea 1rnf1FEesf TO


"Let me take two or three hats, so
that can change them each time"


He stuck them under his cape, and
went out.


The moon was shining brightly as
he crossed the yard. 1t had just risen
and shOne through the Gothic win
dOws of the library, lighting them up
so that they glimmered family across
the snow, as if the high hall was filled
with the halo of the genius that it en-
shrlned. The old elms stood up mo-
tionless against the sky, and the light
reflected from the snOW-covered roofs,
flashed through their branches. The
snow cracked under his feet; and
the clear, cold air sent q thrill of life
all through him as he walked rapidly
sway from the square toward the pro-
fessOr's house. Now and then the
sound of bells would come out of the
distance, growing louder, till the
sleigh flashed into the light, and
away again out of sight and hearing.
He half forgot the object of his walk,
and his mind was full of many wan
dering thoughts. He thought of
meeting the charming girl with whom
he had Just become acquainted in his
own village, in the coming summer.


He thought how happy lie should
be if she should favor him, and let
him devote his life to her. He thought
how pleasant if she were riding with
him now in one of these sleighs, to
watch the ever changing forms of the
clouds, as the moon lighted them up.
He almost thought he saw her image
beckOning to him from a radiant
cloud; then he thought of the warm
climes that the moon even then was
shining on, and of the bliss of wan
dering with her on some isle of
changeless summer. 1t came over
him how much time he had wasted
idly that he might have improved, if
he had not such an object before him
and mighty resolutions arose within
him.


These reflections brought him 10
the house; and laughing to himself
to think that he would some time