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THE FIVE CENT Batered according i Act of ES ess, in the year 1882, by FRANK TOUSEY, inthe Hee of tne Librarian of prance at Was antagunl D.C. Entered at the Post Orjice at New York, N. ¥., as Second Class Matter. TE FRANK BOUSEYS EUS LIEB 34 & 36 NogrE MOORE Street, Y. Y. PRICE . No. 503 4 ; COMPLETE, } Nuew Yorks, July 17, 1: SSUED Every WEDNESDAY 5 CENTS. } Vols 3 Tommy Bounce, Jr., 0 College By PETER PAD. Author of «Tommy Bounce, Jr., a Chip of the Old Block,” ‘‘ The Shortys Married and Settled Down,” “‘ Bob Rollick; or, What Was He Bort La For?” “ Ebenezer Crow,” “ Stump; or, Little, but Oh, My fy!” * Chips and Chin-Chin,” ‘ Stuttering Sam, aes Tommy Bounce, » - oa ” Sort 'y in Search of His Dad,” * Tumbling Tim,” , tc te., Ete. a Galvin | ae cma Pa oe i oan Hl a | I yy: oi ae) a A in Ml i i a fi : ‘ ‘ | d i 4 fii 7 s Z “Cua to stand it uny longer, Blobbs ied him with both soe by y the oie and began to, shake him, while the class laughed all the : 3 ouder. be Ee,
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-2 TOMMY BOUNCE, x dP. The subscription price for THe Wipe Aware Lisrary for the year 1882 will be $2.50 per year; $1.25 FRANK TOUSEY, PusrisHer, 34 and 36 North Moore Street, New York. * IN’ COLLEGE. r 6 months, post paid. Address Box 2730. Pee: Tommy Bounce, Jr, in College. Author - CHAPTER I. In commencing the relation of a new career for an oid and well-known charagter to our readers, a few words in the form of a synopsis of what has passed during his former career may be well, more especially for those who’ now take up these chronicles for the first time. - A Tommy Bounce, the son of his dad (who at his age was very much like him), had been attending the academy of Professor Slam, where, although he made creditable progress in his studies, was nevertheless such a mischievous fellow, and, in connection with others, cut up so many pranks and played so many jokes on the teachers and others connected with the school, that he and another, by the name of Bill Gunn, were finally expelled and sent home to their parents; this being the only way, in the opinion of Professor Slam, that he could relieye himself of the personal hot water into which they were continually sousing him (as tens of thousands of former readers will pleasantly remember), and restore his school to anything like its former, reputation for gravity. _ So out they went, and Srertey went with flying colors, regretted by their school-fellows, but gladly Jost by the management. Perhaps it would be interesting to know all about how Tommy Bounce was received home after being ** fired out” of Professor Slam’s school, together with his particular friend and fellow mischief-maker, Bill Gunn. Butit is enough to say that the reception was warm, on the part of his dad, although, as usual, his mother was inclined to smother it for him as well as possible. e y “Y)) fix him,” thought Mr. Bounce. *I’lltake some of the devil out of him, if hard work and short rations will do if, I'll put him into the store and make a drudge of him; l'ii——”” ayaa And just then he stopped, while his mind reverted to te own adyent in the same store so many years be- ore. > - And as he reflected, a smile gradually stole over his face, for well he remembered how full of the “old boy}? he was himself when he was a young boy, and with all his wrath and een he could not but ett that Tommy was simply a‘‘chip of the old OCK). “ But never mind,’ he added, after he had énjoyed a reflective smile, ‘I remember how my father put me through, and itis my duty to serve him in the same way. Yes, if he will mot behave at school Pll make him behave in the store at work.’? And s0 Tommy was taken into the store and put to hard labor. Li : It rather went against his grain, but after surveying the situation for a few days ina quiet sort of way, he concluded that he could worry a little fun out of it if he tried hard. There were five or six clerks and two porters there for him to operate upon, andso he began to study their peculiarities. One of the porters, Dennis O’Rag, was a subject for fan, for hé was one of those Handy Andy sort of Irish- | men who was forever making mistakes and saying the queerest things ever heard. Tommy cottoned to Dennis right away, and as he ‘was the son of the boss, of course Dennis found it no hardship to fall in with him. In fact, before a week had passed he was ready to swear by him. — But Tommy was xeaping remarkably quiet for him. In fact, so greatly so that it almost made nim} sick, , Finally ti dinners began to be changed. Tim McPeg, the other ce brought his dinner in a tin kettle of one make, and Dennis brought his in another. ‘but when Tim sat down at noon to eat his bread an _ Meat, he would find bread and butter and perhaps a _ smoked herring. 5 This Of course made him mad, and he would swear that ‘Mistress O’Rag would just catch the divil when he went back to their palace in the evening,’? and she generally did, although swearing that she never gaye him a herring for dinner in all her life. On the other hand, Tim McPeg smiled the smile of -the Nappy, and inwardly congratulated himself on hay- rede ' aan ey Pe MEA but Oh, My!” “ Chips and Chin Chin,” ‘* Tom, Dick, and the ee By PETER PAD, ing the finest wife in the world to manage on the sly to give him bread and meat, when bread and butter and red herrings were the best ‘he could expect; and, in fact, the best he ever got. This went on for several days, to the utter demoral- ization of Mrs. O’Rag and delight of Tim McPeg. And there were two clerks who brought their din- ners as well. Finally the trouble between the porters ceased and the same thing began between the two clerks, And they were not disposed to take no notice of the matter either. One of them got a much better dinner than his landlady usually put up for him, and the other a much worse one. But finally the one who got the worst of the exchange accused the other of changing grub, and then there was a riot between them, all of which Tommy enjoyed greatly. But on the whole he was behaving much better than at school, especially when at home. ‘True, there were several strange things happened about the house for which no account could be given, but which old Eben- ezer Crow, the family coachman (who was still in the employ4of Mr. Bounce, as was hiswife and son, George Washington Abraham Lincoln Crow), felt tolerably cer- tain were the tricks of Tommy Bounce. Yes, Ebenezer was still in the employ of Tommy’s father, and was growing gray in the service, as was his wife, the cook. As for their son and heir, George Washington Abraham Lincoln, ie had grown to be quite a Jad, and was employed as hall-boy. But Tommy behaved so well at home that they all began to think he had turned over a new leafand had sown all his wild oats. » Of course, they only saw the outside. They didn’t know about how often he disappeared from the house after the family were in bed, and what rackets he would go on, getting back in time to put in an appear- ance at breakfast, at all events, and so, by working on the sly, he got to be regarded as a good boy once more. i For a while he and Bill Gunn kept up their corre- spondence, by which each was posted regarding the fortune of the other, but finally Bill took a trip to Eu- rope with his mother, and the letters between them ceased entirely after a while. Well, while Tommy was thus having his fun “on the strict Q. T,” his mother was doing all in her power for him, and continually telling his father what a shame it was that he should be denied a college educa- tion, and fall back upon the drudgery of a mercantile life when the splendors and the honors of a profes- sional career were within his reach. She protested against it.’? ; “Oh, yes,” the old man would say, “you are for making a fine gentleman of him, but I tell you it can- not be done.” ““Why? Is he so much like you, my dear?’ the mother would ask, with a little wormwood. Then Mr- Bounce would get mad, and have no more to say about it at that time. But she would be sure to bring it up on all sorts of occasions, until he finally made up his mind to send Tommy to college. : Alt this Mrs. Bounce would impart to her hopeful. and so Tommy was kept well posted regarding wha was going on. In truth, he had no taste for a mercan- tile life, and after working a few months, he made up his mind that he preferred school to it. “He had no idea of ever fitting himself for any of the learned professions. He hadn’t had half a bellyful of fun yet, and, until he did haye, he had no notion of bothering his head with anything else. But in order to tit himself for college, he was obliged to go through with a course of private instructions to ern os, up for what he had neglected at Mr. Slam’s school. + And so he was placed under the tutorship of a min- ister, who took it upon himself to fit him for entering college. ; But he soon found that Tommy was not only ex- ceedingly quick to learn, but, in fact, had already learned much more than anybody supposed he would have done who had watched his course at Mr. Slam’s boarding-school. The parson was a very learned man, and, of course, | mischiefas ever Tommy Bounce was himself. of ‘Bob Rollick, the Yankee Notion Drummer,” “The *Shortys Married and Settled Down,” «“ Bhenezer Crow,” ‘Stump; on, Little, ,” “Tumbling Tim,” ‘Tommy Bounce,” ‘ Shorty; or, Kicked into Good Luck,” ‘ Fommy Dodd,” * Shorty in Search of His Dad,” ‘‘ The Shortys' Trip Around the World,” etc., ete. a very pious one; and, of course, again, knowing that his pupil’s father was a very rich man, he took great interest in Tommy, and held him up as being a very promising scholor. Yes, this he did, notwithstanding several tricks wnich Tommy played upon him, one of which was the fastening together of the two halves of odd sermons, and«getting him greatly confused, as well as confus- ing his hearers the next Sunday when he attempted to preach from what he supposed a single one, and the one he had written for the occasion. And during the year that Tommy was undergoing this preparatory course of study, old Ebenezer Crow and his son, George Washington Abraham Lincoln, came in for a number of rackets which especially made the old man think of days that were passed. In short, while laying very low and seeming to be the best boy alive, he was having nearly as much fun, = ao oe Slam’s school, only keeping more quiet about it. 4 Once or twice he had met some of the boys who still went to Slam’s school, and they laughed and talked over again the rackets they had enjoyed there, al- though they all said that the life had all gone out of the school since the departure of Tommy and Bill Gunn. But itis safe to say that neither Blam, Josh, Hop Ski, Mr. Slam, or Miss Overripe thought so. Well, and so at the end of a year Tommy passed a successful examination, and was admitted to Yale College as a freshman. ~ : It was an event in his life, as it is in the life of every young man who enters college, although Tommy was not much ofa ‘‘freshman,” save in name, By this time he had grown from the schoolboy we have seen him to be a fine-looking lad; a pood speci- men of Young America, and at the age of seventeen he was an adept in all the eb sports, and an out” and out thoroughbred in everything. : He made a very favorable impression on the senior and junior classes, and they at. once saw that ‘‘ one of the gang’? had come to the school, but nevertheless, he was a freshman, and according to the custom he would have to be put through a course of “hazing” just as though he was a regular clod. And Tommy Bounce was not long in finding out that he was’among a lot of the brightest, gayest, smartest, best young fellows that ever congregated beneath the hovering mane of Alma Mater—as ¢col- leges are often called—and that he had got to look sharp, and play a trump every time in order te keep his end up. ic But they went for him, and as here is a good chance to introduce some of the characters; who may here- after figure with Tommy, I will present them to the reader. It was the evening of the third day after his install- ment that about a dozen of the wildest fellows marched into Tommy’s room yery politely, pretending that . they. oe only come for @ friendly call, just to get ac- quainted. ; d ; ~ First, there was Bill Digby, a fine-looking young fel- low, about twenty, something of a sport, but as aut of en Harry Farnum, an athlete, captain of the college base- ball nine, tall, very pha pely and good-looking, and © with more interest in the Clipper than he had in either Greek or Latin; Joe Brick, Jack Wilds, Frank — Rackaboy, George Blossom, Charley Pepper, Mark Harmer, ‘Fred Morton, Ross Smalley, Abe Skinner, Dick Benson, Sam Bedloe, and many others whose names will appear from time to time. ; Tommy rose to receive them; in fact, he was very glad to receive them, for he had begun to be as lone- gome as a borrowed dog, and was ready to welcome anybody, alniost. ; “ Bounce, we have called to see you,” said Bill Dig- by, walking in ahead of, the others. : “Tm devilish glad,” said Tommy. — ¥ ‘We thought you'd be, freshmen are generally glad to see undergraduates and sophs. Here’s the gang,” he added, turning to the others and introducing them. y \ “Gentlemen, I’m glad to see you ak. Take woat : * ¢ : : PS nt + r teks
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr.,-IN COLLEGE. 3 seats you can find and then get on the, bed,” said Tommy, cheerfully. ‘Many thanks, we'prefer the hed,’ said Digby, and as many as could find room on it at once took seats. “ Gentlemen——”? began Tommy, “Hush! do you hear that? He calls us gentlemen,” said Smalley. ‘Which goes to show conclusively that he is a fresh- man.” s “That’s what lam; I suppose you were all fresh- men once.”? s ‘No, never!?? “ Never—neéyer! said they all, in chorus. Tommy tumbled te a ‘roast,’ but he said nothing, and kept a bright face, ‘I’m sorry that I hayen’t anything to treat you with, boys——”? £ *“Boys!’? they all exclaimed, ‘Gentlemen, then,?? i “What, gentlemen ??? “Toughs.?? “We do not ‘understand you, Mr. Bounce,’ said . y . Digny seriously. - which they smacked their lips and cried “yum-yum}? { spirtedly. “All rights but what I was going to say, was, that I am yery sorry I have nothing to treat you with, but if you will go with me out to any place you will suggest, I will tumble and do the tidy,’”said Tommy. ‘We always go prepared,’’ said they, at the same time pulling out each a bottle and a pipe black enough to frighten a Dutchman, “Tet us drink to Bounce,” ‘We bounce to drink,’?. With this they all took a@ pull at their bottles, after in unison, 5 F “y_—a—l—e, Yale!’? they Next cried. accompanying their spelling of the name with recorking their bottles and placing them back in their pockets again without olvering Tommy a sup. fi ‘“S-m—o—k—el smoke!’ they yelled, and proceed- ed to fill their pipes, taking care to close the dooriand windows before doing so. A “Do you smoke, Bounce ?? t : ‘No; but I smoke tobacco sometimes,” replied Tom- my, cheerfully. : ** G-1-a-c-i-0-u-s—gracious!? they all exclaimed, in concert; and then they began to puff away at their pipes. ’ ; Ric womans ; Tommy saw that he was in forit:and so pulled out a cigar and lighted it. I ' At that moment the combined weight of those upon the bed broke itdown. ©. ar “What! Is;this your hospitality?" asked Harmer, sternly. f i big : “NG; ; that is my bed. But don’t disturb yourselves, my friends; the bed can stand it, if you can. Smoke away,” said Tommy. — . : ; They saw quite: soon) that; they were not likely to make much out of! Tommy, but without’ saying any- thing in reply, they proceeded with their smoking un- til the room was s0 full of smoke that you couldn’t see a foot before your nose.) J Par Tommy stood it like a little man; and, in fact, the smoke appeared to have quite aS much etfect upon the hazers as it did npon him; and:so they'soon moved on other things. a ’ “Come out and take a walk,” said Digby. ‘“ With all my heart,” replied Tommy, starting up, wvigby and Harmer took him inetow, and started «own-stairs, while some others remained behind: to change the number on the door of his: room with that on the door just beyond, belonging to a room ocenpied by @ savage sophomore who could never See a joke. © Then they ali joined inthe walk, They-took Tommy _ oxt upon the college green, and to throw him otf his tard, asked him if he would hayea drink. Of course ie would, Rhos i : And so they Jed him to a hydrant, where. with a hose, they gave him a good wash that: nearly blinded him, and to make it all the more interesting; they ' filed his eyes and ears full of sand, and after giving him a very rough bandling, they suddenly left him alone in the dark to find his way back as best he ~ might. Poor Tommy! He took it all with the best grace. he could, knowing that resistance would only make mat- ters worse, and just as soon as he could collect him- self, he attempted to make his way back to his room, But this was a thing not easily accomplished, for he was almost a stranger in the place, and in the dark- ~ “ness and bewilderment, he first came upon the porter’s lodge. That efficial acts the part of a watch-dog at _ She college, and takes to task any fellow who may _ chance to be out after the prescribed hours, — And it so happened that this was after hours, unless a student chanced to have a special pass.or permit from the president, and se Tommy was overhauled. He attempted to explain, but the porter accused him of being drunk, and threatened him with expulsion... But after giving his name, he was sent to his room, with orders to. report to the yicé-chancellor in the i morning to learn his fate. He felt worse about this than anything; but being wet to the skin and decidedly used up, he concluded to get to his room, and into some dry clothes just as quickly as possible. The hallway was dark, or nearly so, the dim light just enabling him to find No. 23, his room, as he sup- posed, and opening the door, he walked in the wrong room, of course. Here he was met by the surly sopho- more, who at once denounced him as a tramp and threw him down-stairs, creating a terrible uproar, | Bruised, banged and nearly knocked out of time, he slowly gathered himse}f up, and stood gazing around as though not knowing what to do next. Then another of the hazers came out, and asked _ him what he wanted, and when told that he wished to find bim room, they informed him that it was in the other end of the building entirely, and one story high- er up. Tommy slowly started away in search of it, but he got into trouble at every step, and finally the porter locked him up in a room without any furniture in it, where he was obliged to stay until. the next morning. But it was plain enough then to the official that Tom- my had been badly hazed, so aftera deal of trouble, he was at length piloted to his room, a very sad fresh- man, indeed. Two or three nights afterwards the gang waited upon him in his room again. But this time they did not come with hosftle intentions, although they posi- tively refused to acknowledge that they knew anything about the hazing at all, and even doubted whether such a thing had ever taken place or not at his expense, Tommy laughed it off, and soon made himself so solid with them that they formally accepted him as one of the gang, and announced that his freshman troubles were at an end, so far as they were concerned, “That is all right, fellows, but it would make me feel ever so much better if I could only help haze some other fellow,’’ said he. “Boys; what do yon say? asked Digby. ‘“ Yes—yes,’? they all cried. “It is weil; Tommy, your wound shall be healed, We have yet another freshman to astonish—one who only came to-day.. But we shall not put him through in the same style. Harmer, go and bring him out.” Three or four of them started out, and then those who remained behind proceeded to treat Tommy, and haye a good understanding regarding the future. He was given to understand that in any future trouble with the older students he conld always count on them, and he was at once proclaimed a member of the “ chain-gang,’? as they called themselves, sworn to Stick to each other in any event, and have justas much fun as they possibly could. . This, of course, pleased Tommy to a dot, and while congratulating himself at having escaped so easily, ne made up his mind to get good and hunk on somebody else. So they all went ont to the appointed place where the last freshman was te be put through. It was quite dark when they reached the: spot; but the other fellows had got there before them, haying the victim with them, butasa prisoner, having acquainted him with the fact of his breaking some of the college Tales for which he was to be taken before the presi- ent. ; . But everything was done in the dark, and the way they did put that poor freshman through was a caution to everybody green. They wet him; they bounced him, they soused him with ink; they pat sand burs in his hair; they turned his coat and hat wrong side out, and then left him to find his way back to his own room as best be might, although, not like Tommy, he did not know the names of any of his tormentors. Well, they all gathered in Tommy’s room after that, where they had drinks, cigars, oysters, and other good things while talking and laughing over the night’s racket. Tommy felt. very much better now, and the part he had taken in the hazing showed him to be an Sere at such things, and he at once became a fay- orite. Bunt while Tommy was on his way to chapel the next morning, who should he meet but the victim of the night before, easily distinguished by the marks that had been left npon him in the shape of ink and sand- burs, all of which the poor devil had not been able to remove before chapel time. The moment they placed eyes on each other they stopped and took another look. “Tommy Bounce!’ “Bill Gunn!” ‘By thunder!” and the next instant they were grasp- ing each other by the hands, , “Why, Bill, how is it?’ “Tommy, you tell me.?? “You a freshman here ? j “Don't I look like one ?”? ‘And you are the fellow I helped to haze last night ?”” “The very chap.’? “Holy Moses}? * . “ Who hazed you??? ‘The same gang.?? “ Give us vour hand again.’? “Shake !?? , “Yon bet.’ ie: “And chance has brought us together once more ?”” “So it seems.”” “Good! Come on. We'll talk this thing over as we go to chapel. Oh, there is a tongh gang here, Bill, but if we don’t go to the front, I shall believe that our early education has been sadly neglected, that’s all. Come on!”? and with locked hands the two friends walked away. 5 CHAPTER II, THE meeting of two snch friends as Tommy Bounce and Bill Gunn, after a long separation and under such circumstances, was not a trifling matter. They paid but little attention to chapel exercises that morning, and just as quick as they were, released, they started back to Tommy’s room, where they sat down to a good long talk. ; ‘Tell meé all about it, Bill,’ said Tommy. did you happen to come to Yale?” F “‘ Well, dad threatened to send me off on my own hook after ie got Slam’s letter; but mother stood in for me, and I went with her to Europe, where we were gone for about a year, and on my return I went to reading up so as to enter college, little thinking that 1 should ever meet you here.?? } ‘** Almost my own case, Bill. Well, the gang gave me a terrible roast, and you came along just in time to let me get hunk. But never mina. They are a jolly lot of fellows, and you shall be introduced to them. They “How shall make you one of them, as they have me, and then look ont for fun.” ; “ But this confounded Greek and Latin??? “Oh! that be hanged, I have tumbled to how the gang work it, and I’]l soon show you college life is not all study—that is, not all book study. They haye boat clubs, ball clubs, secret societies, and Heaven only knows what else, and so you see it is not all Greek roots and Latin verbs.” “JT hope not. In fact, if you are here, 1 am certain it will not be.”” “The same for you, Bill.’ ‘* Provided we don’t get ‘fired out’ as we didatold * Slam’s.”? “That's 80; but we must lay low.” ** Have you seen any of the old boys?’” “Three or four of’em. They say it is awfully dull up there now. But we will make 1t lively enough here in New Haven.’? “You het.” ‘ ® The lessuns of the. day over, ‘the gang”? met in Tommy’s room, when they were given a special intro- duction to Bill Gunn, “Boys, he’s one of ’em,’’ said Tommy. “Then he must be one of us,” said they. “Cert, Why, he and I used to go to school together, and we had more fun to the square inch than any two fellows that ever lived.” ~ “Good. Shake the son ofa Gunn again,’? said Bilt Digby, setting the exampie of shaking Bill's hand. And before a week bad passed by, Bill Gunn was pretty well initiated into the life and mysteries of Yale College, and both he and Tommy Bounce were re- garded as trumps by everybody, except the faculty, perhaps, but as they had never played them as yet, they didn’t know what good cards they were. Nearly every student receives a nickname on enter- ing school which generally clings to him until he graduates, and notinfrequently all through life. But Bill Gunn was dubbed with several. Some of them called him “Son of a Gun,” some “ Pistol,’? some ““Musket,’? and others ‘‘ Blunderbuss.”” But he neyer ‘“kicked,”? however much they ‘ load- ea”) him. In the interval since leaving Mr. Slam’s school, he had perfected himself in ventriloguism, an4 in addition had learned several ey clever and bewildering sleight-of-hand tricks witich enabled himnto make even ‘more fun than he had made formerly, and his fellow students were notlong in discovering that they haa gotten a valuable assistant in the mischief and mutnal entertainment business, At Tommy’s urgent solicita- tions, Bill was allowed to rodm with him, and tnat capped the whole thing. It was not long before all sorts of pranks were fre- quently played on somebody, especially upon Solomon Blobbs, a Latin professor, who weighed at least three hundred pounds and was nearly as big one way as another; but beyond suspecting who it might be, the rogues contrived to remain unknown, f This Solomon Blobbs was a tyrannical old fellow, and nothing in the world gave him greater satisfac-~ tion than to load a student with hard lessons, and then browbeat him in the most outrageous manner if he failed in the least degree. Consequently it may well be supposed that he was not very popular with the students, and that if anybody did succeed in play- ing a trick on him he found few sympathizers, As before stated, ie was. short and rotund, but one of the most distinguishing feavures about him was a completely bald head, and a large, very red nose. The students used to say that his foréhead was so high that it reached away over to lis. coat collar, ape “Dumpling” was the nick-name they gave him, al. though some of them used to call him ‘* Apple Dump, both kinds of sauce,” but 1t was generally “Dump? for short, and they were always ready to furnish the sauce, re nee : Directly an opposite to Blobbs, in a physieal point of view, was Professor Eleazar Budd, teacher of English branches, He was over six feet In “height, and but little more than a skeleton with clothes on. so lanky was he, and ‘Mourning Pin” was the nick-name he | bore, although he and Blobbs were generally desig- nated as “The Twins,’’ fle wore blue glasses, and, taken all-in-all, he was abont as queer a looking speci- men of humanity as ever was seen, although he was miidness itself, nas \ “The fellows used to take delight. in reciting their English lessons to him, for they almost always man- aged to haye fun enough to sweeten their tasks. One day he was hearing a class in physical geog- raphy when Bill Gunn got in a lot of his yenirilo- quism, which bothered the old -fellew very much, and afforded all hands a lot of amusement. 7 “And now, young gentlemen, you wil see by this lesson thatthe bottom of the ocean is quite as great) diversified as is the surface of the dry Jand, and that isl- ands are simply the peaks of submerged mountains which chance to be tall enough to reach above the sur- face of the water,’ said he. . “ Wonsense,” somebody right behind the professor seemed ,to say, but, of course, the reader understands that it was the ventriloquism of mischievous Bill Gunn and no real person at all. ‘ Professor Budd turned slowly around and lifted his blue specgacles. He always did this whenever he wished to get a particularly good view of any’person or thing, although he couldn’t see worth a cent when he did so, : Hiwdecpreae seas The class was all on a grin. : “Who was that?” he finally asked, as he face his class again. 3 But of course nobody knew, and after again ‘taking - off his glasses, and again turning around to see if he conla see anybody, he finally resumed the lesson. “Mr, Bounce, describe the Gulf Stream,’? “it is bounded on the north by nowhere, on the — ty : curned to .
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/ 4 : TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. south by nowhere, east and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the bottom by mud!” replied Tommy, as sober as a Sheep. “Stop, sir—stop! That is not a proper answer; I did not ask you to bound it, and even had I done so, that answer was wrong.” “Itis bound south,’ said a voice that seemed to come from an open window.” , The class started and directed their attention to it, as did Professor Budd. ““Who was that?’ he asked, solemnly. “Don’t know,” they all said, in chorus. “That is \very extraordinary—yery;”’ and he pro- ceeded to the window in quest of the person who had created the disturbance. After looking in vain, of course, he turned slowly, and was returning to his class, when: _ “Gulf Stream’s bound south! again seemed to come from the window at his back. He again turned and went to the window, while his class wéte ready to split with laughter. He looked down to the ground, and then slowly up along the window casings, as though hoping to finda clew to the mystery. “Very extraordinary,’’ he mused, as he once more turned towards his tickled class. ‘Did you hear it, gentlemen ?”’. “We did,’’ said they all, both those in the secret and those who wondered at it. ‘ “Wxeeedingly extraordinary. Mr. Rackaboy, de- scribe Lake Michigan,” he added, finally. “It’s where Michiganders swim ;? and this time the voice seemed to come from a corner of the room where a big wood-box stood. * | This was a trifle too much, and the professor con- cluded to defer the lesson until he had investigated this Strange business. So he walked to the box, lifted the lid, and looked in. He even pulled out some of the wood, but of course he found nothing strange or suspicious there. Sorely mystified, he let the cover drop again, when a smothered: “Oh, my Jingérs !” seemingly coming from the inside of the box, caused him to start and look wild, while the class left their seats and gathered around him, “~The most extraordinary thing I ever knew or heard of,” said he, looking wildly around. : * Letme out ’ sounded again. “Goodness me! whatis it?” he whispered. “Somebody in the box,”’ suggested Tommy Bounce. Again he lifted the cover and looked in, when, after convincing himself beyond a doubt that there was no- body inside of it, he let down the cover. “ Mourning Pin, let me out!” “ Gentlemen, this is beyond my comprehension,”’ said Budd. “I halfsuspect that some rogue has se- sreted himself somewhere about the room, and is an- noying the class. However, we will withdraw to an- other room, and { will have one of the janitors to search the place miorone ny, and bring the culprit to punishment,” saying which he led the way to another recitation-room. Here the mischievous ventriloquist thought it best to lét up on the professor, for fear that he might tum- ble to the racket if he kept it up any longer at that time. Buta man was kept hunting about that room for the supposed hiding-place of the culprig until he came to the conclusion that Budd was off his nut. And this was only a sample of the fun they had with this odd professor. But one day a new elementiof fun entered the col- jege, in the person of a freshman, a very fresh man, too, by the name of Jethro Mullen, from somewhere in Vermont. He was tall and lathy, about twenty years of age, dressed like a stage “‘ Yankee” almost, and altogether aqueer sample of a man in search of his collegiate honors. Well, yes, he was a perfect plum; a live huckle- “berry, so to speak. The faculty had expeoted him the day before, but 4s he had been detained at Boston on some account or other, he failed to connect with New Haven until quite late on the afternoon of the next day, after school hours, and after the officers had given him up. ‘As luck would have it (for the gang), Tommy Bounce and half a dozen of the fellows discovered him first as he come sauntering across the campus with a huge carpet-sack in his hand, and gawking all around him. “IT say, fellows, lll bet that’s a new freshman,’” said Tommy, pointing to Jethro, They all took a look and agreed to it. * Now let’s have some fun with him.” “Yes, yes; come on,’’ said they all. “ Qiret, now, so as not to give it away.’’ And Tom- * my led the party toward the stranger. But he didn® have to speak first, for Jethro was in. search of a guide and information. { . Say, you, where’s the college?” he asked, as soon as he got within speaking distance. “These are portions of it which you see scattered around here,”’ replied Tommy, soberly. ~~ “Portions of it!” said he, with a strong nasal twang. * Arn’t the thing all together ??? “Oh, no. Couldn’t get it all under one roof. Which portion do you wish?’ : _ “Wall, Il want to get into college.'? “'That’s an easy t! to do.’? “But I want to matriculate ?” “Oh, you dol’? said they all. “Yes. Put down my name and join the college. Do you belong to it?’ *Do-wel Well, slightly. Three of us are professors here,” said Frank Rackaboy. “You don’t say so! Wal, I swanny!’? exclaimed Jethro, setting down his huge bag, and taking a look at the party. » Fact, IL assure you.” “Wall, and so young, too??? “Oh, we began young; eight was the oldest.’’ ““you don’t say so! Guess1 don’t stand much of a show then.” : “Well, that depends upon how far along you are now.’’ “Gracious! Wal, my name’s Jethro Mullen, I’m right from Bennington, Vermont, where I’ve always worked on a farm, snd what education I’ve got I picked up mostly myself. But dad he told me when | could translate Virgil that he would send me to college and make a lawyer out of me, and herelam all ready, although I’ve had an allfired hard time of getting here. Never was ten miles away from home before in my life.”” “But have you ever taken your degrees in physical culture?’ asked Mark Harmer, ; “No, but you bet I’ve had all the physical exercise that was needful, working on a farm.’’ “ But that will not do. Gentlemen, suppose we take him to the gymnasium and give him a few points be- fore he goes before the chancellor for final examina- tion?’ said Tommy, turning to the boys. “Certainly,” said some, and “‘ cert.,” cried others. “Y’d be much obliged to you for any hints or ane gestions you will make, for I’m bound to get into this college somehow and be a lawyer, you bet. ? “All right, then. You have got just time to gat yourself ‘up’ to-day, so that you will be all ready for to-morrow. Come on,’ said Tommy, leading the way towards the gymnasium. “That’s me. I want to learn all the ropes, I do,’’ re- plied Jethro, following, gladly. ‘Oh, it’s essential. You would never be allowed to matriculate in the world unless you understood all about the gymnasium and physical nature,’’ said Smalley. “Gracious! It’s lucky I met you, ain’t 1t?? ‘Indeed it is. You might have been sent back again and had all thé expense for nothing. But we'll fix you,’’ said Charley Pepper. . “Allright. ll take it all in one lesson if I can, for I’m bound to have a college education.” “Well, you will be obliged to take it all in at one lesson, for you will not have a chance fora second one before your examination.” “ All right, V'll take it. Never saw anything yet 1 couldn’t learn; but folks always said that I’d find it harder when I got to college.’ “Oh, we'll give youa good send off. We were fresh- men once ourselves.’? “J s’pose so. Dreadful big concern, though, arn’t it? he added, glancing around at the different build- ings. a: Yes, the buildings cover three square miles.” “Yes, and before-you graduate you will have to go through them all,’? added Harry Farnum. “By gracious |”? and Jethro looked wild. By this time they had reached the gymnasium building, and while the others had been ehafling their intended victim, Tommy Bounce, Bill Gunn, Joe Brick, Frank Rackaboy and two or three others had been working up the racket they were bound to give him. Going inside they found it nearly deserted, and everything lovely for the “* circus.” “Now, we will show you what is to be done on the various apparatus here, and you must follow our ex- ample in everything. We will also put you through Several necessary points in this physical business, and just in proportion to your success and endurance will be your chances of being accepted as a Treshman of Yale College,’’ said Tommy. “All right. Go ahead, and I'll follow you te the very last,” said Jethro, bravely. Thereupon the gang pulled off coats and vests, and began to go through with the various evolutions on spring-bars, Swings, weights, rings, trapeze swings; doing some remarkably fine acts—always having been used to it—but greatly to the astonishment of Jethro Muilen, who watched the surprising perform- ances with the greatestinterest. He had never dreamed before that so much physical culture was essential to being admitted to college, 4 Kc Nowe then, old man, go it,’’ said Tommy, after the victim had watched the performances for a short time. “What shall I do first?” “pry this pair of fifty-pound dumb-bells.’? “Gosh! but being a very strong fellow, he managed to put them up quite well, for which he was rewarded with applause. “Now try this horizontal bar. Here, * Beansy,’ just show him how to doit.” Joe Brick (or “ Beansy,” as they called him, because he came from Boston) being a good performer on the horizental bar, at once sef Jethro some examples of a very sensational nature, and then Jethro was told to imitate them. Well, he attempted to, but he couldn’t doit. The nearest he could come to it was to fall down three or four times, and burst his nose and his clothes in sev- eral ways, during which his teachers were nearly kill- ing themselves with laughter. He finally ended the performance by landing on his head on the floor, and driving himself into his hat almost out of sight. It tooksome time to get him out of his * dice,” but that old-fashioned hat wasn’t worth much when they finally did succeed, any more than the wearer was. Then ey hurried him to the pulling-rings, where he succeeded better, and from that to a performance with Indian clubs, during which he banged himself in the head three or four times with them, and concluded he had got all the “ physical’? out of them that he wanted, after which they put him to imitate the exampie set him on the flying trapeze. He triedit. He flew. Oh, yes, he flew—from the trapeze through a window at the other end of the room, smashing out sash and everything, and when the boys picked him up and pulled the broken glass out of him, he said he thought he had got enough. But they would not have it. They had his interest too much at heart to allow him to stop an inch short of success, and they told him s0, and they made him believe it. And on the strength of this interest in him, he allowed them to put his feet into the rings of a double ring swing, and while hanging head: down- wards, to swing him until,he thought there wasn’t anything else left to stand onin this world. ‘Then they got him into a blanket and tossed him about a dozen times, after which they crammed him into a barrel, much against his will, and then they at-— tached it by clamps to a swing that was hung from the roof about fifty feet above, and after raising it so asto clear the floor, they swung him back and forth ata tremendous sweep, at the same time singing a college song, by way of accompaniment, until finally the clamps broke from the chimes of the barrel, and it flew, Jethro andall, through another window, and he landed out upon the grounds so severely that the bar- rel burst all to pieces, and he was spilt very promiscu- ously. Slowly and sadly he gathered himself up and began to take an inventory of himself to see if any bones were broken, still clinging to his old gripsack, which he had collared just before being thrust into the bar- rel. No bones were broken, but it was a miracle that they were not, after all he had passed and been fired through. He picked himself up slowly and glanced wildly around. Nobody wasin sight. Before him was the broken barrel and the smashed window, out of which he had been so uncermoniously fired. He drew several long breaths and grasped the remains of his gripsack ighter. “Gosh darn my everlasting skin; if this is the way they get into college, none for me!” Swill uncertain whether he had been dropped out of a balloon; sent up by a boiler explosion, or fondled by the hind legs of a mule, Jethro Mullen started for somewhere, but where, he hadn’t the slightest idea. CHAPTER UL = / WHEN Jethro Mullen went flying through the win- dow of the gymnasium and landed all in a heap, and all of a wreck, Tommy Bounce, Bill Gunn, and the other lads who had been working the physical circus on him, sat down and laughed until they could scarcely catch their breath. : Was ever a freshman put through such a course of sprouts? Did a victim ever escape so miraculously ? They finally recovered themselves enongh to look through the broken window to see which way their victim went. rie Finding that he had wandered off towards the chapel, they stole out of the building and got away and back to their own rooms with just as little loss of time as possible, and as they are safely housed, let us turn to Jethro Mullen. ‘ Almost paralyzed, and so dazed that he didn’t know himself from a sheep’s pelt, he grasped what there was left of his gripsack, and sar ged what there was left of himself towards the chapel. ; One of the janitors met him. “Whatdo you want here ?”” he demanded, supposing him to be a tramp. : ‘“Where’s the boss of this place?’ asked Jethro, mournfully. “What do you mean?’ “The head one.’? “The president ?”’ “1 guess so—yes, where is he??? , in You can’t see him to-night. What do you want of him?” “T came to join this college.”’ “ What for?” 4 “To get larnin’. I’m bound to be a lawyer. My name’s Jethro Mallen.” “Oh, you were expected yesterday ?”” ‘Yes, but I only got in this afternoon.” “But—I say; have you been through a threshing- machine?” asked the janitor, looking him over, Ss SN ong Worse than that.” “what 2” is ae Physical culture,’ “Well, Ishould say so. Hew?” “T met some of the students ont here, and they took me into the gymnasium, where they said I had got to go through certain things before I could get admitted © to the college.’ f “You did. What did they do with you?’ “Look at me!” : od peeing Pounce, I bet a dollar,” said the janitor. ‘“ Wall, there was considerable bounce about it, that’s a fact, but a darned sight more fling.’’ “ How 80?” : “Do you see that window?” asked Jethro Mullen, pointing back to the ruined opening. The janitor shaded his eyes with Tis hand and took a look. “ Well, yes. What did that 7? How ?”” y ““T did it.’? A oe “Wall, 1 guess I lost m: ip somehow.” ‘Your what?” Sa ae “They put me through a course of what they said was physical culture,” said Jethro, and a faint smile gleamed on his mug, as he thought that perhaps after all he might have been “' roasted.” “Well, yes, but what or who put you throngh that window?” asked the janitor, _ “That was & ey of the physical!’ P “Physical! [should say so. Tell me aboat it, for it rather gets ahead of anything I have ever seen ~ taught here before.’ ; os , ee
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. 5 “But don’t freshmen haye to be up in physical culture before they can be admitted?! ‘Well, not necessarily so.” “What! They told me so.” / “Not the slightest doubt of it, for they are liable to tell freshmen anything. But what did they do with ‘ou ??? ‘““What did they do? What didn’t they do?’ ‘‘How many were there of them ?’ “Oh, bout a dozen. They told me that I could never matriculate until 1 had got up in physical cul- ture as they called it, and as I was anxious to get en- rolled they said they would give me a few lessons,’ A broad grin overspread the janitor’s face. “They took me into the gymnasium and put me through some of the allfiredest things phat was eyer mi K i Neer. cae EE Ne “Wall, Il want to get all that’s required, for 1’m bound to get through this college and come out a lawyer,’’ replied Jethro, earnestly. \ “Oh, that’s all right. points, never fear.” - ie melee be I do next? Where am I to sleep to- night ? “Go up there to the hall dnd I will see if there is a vacant roém fthat you can have, although it is not customary to assign men until after they have passed examination and been matriculated,’ and the janitor pointed him to the vice-chancellor’s reception room on the first floor of the main building. ; The official’s object was first of all to find ont who had been instrumental in firing the freshman through the window and smashing it, it being one of his many They?ll teach you all the almost anybody would haye mistaken hin for fat old Professor Blobbs, while Tommy had arranged a slight . | disguise, so that Jethro would not recognize him, as had three or four others who seemed to be industrious students, waiting om the professor for some assistance in their studies. It was now dark, and the room, lighted with some brightness, also’ assisted the disguises, and Jethro failed to recognize one of the gang. He sauntered into the room and towards the table ~ at which the supposed professor sat before a pile of books. But Jethro still looked as though he had been attempting to pare the toe-nails of a mule, and it re- quired the greatest effort on the part of the fellows to keep trom laughing outright. “How de du??? he ventured, softly, as he strode © ~ | ig TS = hy Re = i i : fF 4 De AChE hes coikeneay He picked himself up and glanced wildly around. Before him was the barrel, and the window out of which he had been fired. heard of, They tossed me up, and run me ‘round; they flopped me over, and made me stand on my head; they swung me until I could hardly catch my breath, and then they pushed me into a barrel and hoisted me into some other sort of a swing. Stranger, that swing spilled me out somehow, and I) went kiting through that window and landed out there rete you see that bursted barrel,”” said he, pointing to it. By the time he had finished his narration the janitor was treating himself to a hearty laugh, “What be yon laughing at?” he asked, but the man ‘couldn’t stop all at once, “Wall, it is kinder funny to ink about, but it wasn’t half so fanny to experience.” “My dear sir, didn’t you ever hear of hazing ?” ‘‘Hazing? Well, seems to me I Haye,” said he, thoughtfally. “Well, <i haye been hazed,”? ‘“No! Is that so?’ asked Jethro, looking at him with open eyes and mouth, “T should say so, anc I must also say that you are about the freshest fresyman that ever I met,” he added, jaughing. - “Wall, I swanny !?? : “And I can scarcely blime them for the roasting they gave you.” \ “But didn’t they mean it?” ‘* Of course they did.” , “T mean, didn’t they mean vhat I had to get up in physcial culture ?? i - “They evidently mea: events,”? _ ‘Wall, is that,all there 1s to it?” “1 guess not; that is, if you don’t keep your eye skinned.”? “Bye skinned |? ; _.‘‘ Yes, you will probably receive all the degrees of physical nt togetyou up in it at all culture before they get through with you.” duties to find out who was responsible for damares about the college. But of course when he reached the gymnasium he found nobody there. Not much. On the contrary, they were watching things and arranging another “roast” for their victim. Bill Gunn soon got himself up in the guise of one of the professors, the art of make up and imitation being his strongest pull, and sending another fellow into the room where Jethro Mullen was by this time waiting, they managed to interrupt him before the janitor re- turned from the gymnasium, “Are you the freshman, Jethro Mullen? asked George Blossom, entering the room. “Yes, that’s me,” replied Jethro, starting up. ‘Very well, Professor Blobbs wishes to see you in his room at once.”? =v “What for, I wonder ?”? “Well I don’t know, but most likely he is going to examine you,as that is his business with all freshmen,” replied Blossom. ‘Oh, going to examine me to-night, eh?” ‘ Probably.” “But I’m so kind o’ flusterea——” “Yes, you do look slightly broken up. Was the train you came on wrecked ?” ‘No, but some of the students have been giving me & AM tess of physical culture up here to. the gym- _“ Yes, and J should say they sliced rather deep. Yor don’t want to let any of the students get you on a string. Come along and I will take yon to the pro- gute said Blossom, leading the way from the ‘oom. x Feeling certain that he was now on the right road, and that his troubles were over, he followed Blossom, who took him directly to the room occupied by Bill Gunn and Tommy Bounce. Bill was made up so that into the august presence, still grasping his ruined gripsack. “ Well, sir, what are at him in surprise. “I'm Jethro Mullen—what there is left of me,’ re- plied he, . “But why do you appear Metore mé in this dilapi- dated condition, sir?” “Well, some of the studehts have been through,” said he. “Putting you through? Through what—a thrash- ing-machine ?”? * A darn sight worse, I guess.” “‘ What is the matter, sir? explain yourself!” roared re ities the voice and look of the old professor a dot. “Wall, professor, they said I wanted to be up in physical culture, and they took me to the gymnasium and put me through,” said he, smiling faintly. “Sir, you are a fool)? “Guess I ama little green, professor.” ‘There are some very bad students in this institu- tion, and you must avoid them. Young gentlemen,” he asked, turning to the other conspirators, “do you know anything about this ??. “No, sir,’ they all answered in chorus, “Ah! Indeed I might have known it, for you are thorough and industrious students, but if you chance to learn who has been engaged in this disgraceful busi- ness of hazing, I trust you will report them to me with- outloss of time.” j “We will, sir,’ said*they all, i . Now, sir,’ sald the professor, again addressing Jethro, “you wish to marticulate in this renowned old college ??” ’ “Yes, sir, I’ve come all the way down from Ben- nington, Vermont, to get in here, gor I’m going to be a lawyer.?? i you?’ demanded Bill, looking putting me
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‘ earthquakes, able to enter this term at least.” 6 TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. PL oe PEL IS LOR lal el alo aaa) 0 “A worthy ambition, sir, But how are you: in your Latin?” * Wall, they say I’m pretsy fair.” “Very well. Take a seat at the table, and le? us see you turn afew English senténces into that classic language. Young gentlemen,” he added, addressing his fellows, ‘““as you ail have had to undergo me sate ordeal, I will allow. you to be witnesses of his trial.” : : “Thank you, sir,’’ they all chorused. Jethro felt his heart come up in his throat as big as @ skeep’s pluck as he took his seat at the table. At fength he was to face the ordea:, “Take this first, Mr. Mullen. prose Latin.” And here Bill handed him a slip of paper on which was written: “In the mellifiaous mind we see forever the con- joined and assembled, also the unconnected. There- fore it must necessarily follow that the hemisphere overcomes the atmospneré, and these’ effects cause the earth to groan and sweat, therefore rains and But let the galled jade kick.’? “There, sir, give me that in Cicero’s Latin,’? Jethro looked it over and groaned. * And here is another to be turned in Latin after the manner of the animals of Tacitus: ‘“She went into the garden to cut the cabbage to make an apple dumplin’. Just then a great she bear, waltzing down the street, poked its nose into the shop window. ‘What !no soap?? So he ‘died, and she married the barber. So they all set to playing “follow my leadér? ’til the gunpowder ran out of their stockings,”? S Jethro read and groaned again, ‘Begin sir,’?? said the professor. ; The poor devil slowly took up a pen, and »egan to turn the nonsensical English into Latin. They gazed upon him, and the perspiration oozed from every square inch of his body. It was an utter im- ossibility to translate either of the examples, and the azers knew it, but Jethro didn’t want kc fall, and so To be translated into ‘he bent to the task. : For half an hour Bill badgered-him, and finaliy said: ‘*Mr. Mullen, I fear that you are not sufficiently advanced to be admitted to Yale College. You had better go back to Vermont and pay strict attention to Latin for the next five years, after which I shall be pleased to examine you again.” “ Gracious me! I never thort a‘chap would have to- be put through this way,” said Jethro. ‘““A very common mistake, sir, You will not be “ And have I got to go back?” “No, sir, you mnst go ahead.” ** But I can’t get in this time?” “No, sir, 1am sorry to say you cannot.” “That's awfal, What will dad say?” “T give itup. But he can never say that we are not déep in our Latin here.” “I should say so,’’ said Jethro, again looking at his examples. ** But where am I to stay to-night?” ‘* Wherever you like.” * Oan’t I stay here ?? ‘* What, in my room ?? “No, I don’t mean that. But can’t-I stay in the college? I haven’t got much money.” “ Well, we'are not disposed to be hard on an unsuc- cessful man. There is a vacant room next to this in which you can remain until morning, and we will give you a breakfast,” “Good! Where is it?” / “<7 will show you,’’ said» Bill, taking up a candle. * Follow me.” With downcast face Jethro seized his damaged grip- sack and followed. Bill led him to the room of one of the gang, Joe Brick, and leaving the candle, wished him good-night, and returned to his fellows. With a sad heart, Jethro Mullen got off his badly- damaged wardrobe and got into bed. So greatly was his mind agitated over the supposed failure to pass examination that he paid bat little attention to the room or what it contained, The great and all-absorb- ing conundrum in his mind was: what would his friends and rdélations say ? But tired and sore with his experience, he finally fell asleep. Meantime, Tommy Bounce and others of the gang were arranging to continue the racket in another form, for Jethro was too good a subject to be given up with one or a dozen “ roasts.’? Every available thing possessed by any or the con- spirators was brought into requisition, and so with the aid of a a few masks and wigs. and some skillfully contrived rattans and sheets, they soon had things working almost as weil as they wisheo, At all events. both Tommy and Bill got themselves up in the shape of the most horrible and ridiculous goblins that were ever seen or heard of, while one or two of the others made up as well as their limited stock of fixtures would allow of, and by the time that Jethro had fallen asleep, they were ready to continue the racket so successfully begun. ; After assuring ,jthemselves, by listening to Jethro’s repeated and prolonged snores, that he was asleep, they completed their make-up, and proceeded to the door of his room, It was not locked, of course, for the key was in the possession of Joe Brick, and all they had to do was to walk righttm. | Joe himself was gotten up 1ook as much like the devil as possible, and he took the lead by secreting himself behind a window curtain, while Tommy Bounce and Bill Gunn took positions at the foot of the bed whereon poor Jethro Mullen was asleep. Joe opened the ball by yelling in a most unearthly voice from behind the curtain. | : Jethro was about half wakened by it, but after rest- ing his snore for a moment, he turned over and tegan it on another key. “Jethro, get up !? he yelled, and Jethro again stop- ped snoring, and once moréturned over without any definite idea of what for. : “Upon him, fiends !’? again shouted Joe, Jethro started up in terror, and beheld the two hor- rible figures at the foot of his bed. ** Oh—oh—who!”’ he cried. ““Wretch! How came you here?” demanded Tom- my, sticking his long head forward until it almost reached the victim’s. “ Kill the tramp !’” exclaimed Bill Gunn, who stood close behind. * Oh, merey—mercy !”? yelled Jethro. ‘No mercy for freshmen |’! “Don’t kill me, please don’t; I’m not going to stay here,” pleaded Jethro. “How came you in this bed?” “The—the professor put me here.” “What professor?” “T_J don’t know, I——” “Tt is false! you are a tramp!” “No—no! I’m Jethro Mullen, good devils—I’m Jethro Mullen, just come down from Vermont, he pleaded. - “Get out of this!’ “Oh, Lord! Where shall Igo?” “Get outand get up!” “Up where ??? “Upon the roof. Quick, as you value your life!” “Oh, dear—oh, dear!? and trembling like an aspen he crawled out of the bed and seked his wardrobe, all the while keeping his eye upon the supposed hob- goblins. ‘Gol? hissed [Steet oes ‘Qh, yes—oh, yes! hich way?” Both of them pointed the way, and Jethro trem- blingly proceeded. They kept close after. him as he skipped along with his clothes under his arm and his old gripsack in his hand, until he had reached the scuttle leading to the roof, out of which they drove him with their terrible maledictions. ate he was upon the roof, when Joe Brick ran up the ladder and fastened down the scuttle door, leaving the poor devil out there in the gloom and darkness. j Here was a situation with the laugh all on one side. The conspirators returned to Tommy’s room and there indulged in a laugh that was loud, deep and hearty, while the victim of their hazing was trembling on tile roof above them, and trying to get into his clothes. For halfan hour they enjoyed their laugh, all the while wondering what Jethro would do, but caring only a little so long as they had their fun and put in a good hazing racket. They finally, at about mid- night, ee to their beds ‘and left Jethro to shift for mself. But it was a tough old place to shift in. CHAPTER IY. WE left Jethro Mullen, the Yale College freshman, on the roof of one of the dormitories of the’college, whither he, had been driven, half frightened to death, by Tommy Bounce and Bill Gunn, dressed up as hor- rible spooks. It willbe remembered that Bill Gunn got himself up in personal imitation of Professor Blobbs, and went through the farce of examining the victim in Latin, and of assuring him that it wasn’t good enough to gain him admittance to the college, and that he was afterwards shown to a room to sleep, where the hazers subsequently appeared in their demoniacal make up and drove him up and out of the scuttle, with his clothes and bad carpet bag under his arm, after which they fastened the cover and left him there for the re- mainder of the night, After trembling for awhile in the chilly air, he finally concluded that he might as well put on his clothes as not, and with cautious slowness he proceeded to crawl into them, all the while looking nervously around, as though expecting to see a spook after him. “Oh, Lord!’ he said, and his teeth chattered like a hash machine as he spoke, “ only let me get out of this dog rotted place and you bet I will make Vermont my headquarters hereafter. If thisis going to college, I’ve got all I want of it; in fact, I think I’ve got through and come out on top. What an awful place this is. to be sure, chuck full of man-traps and most horr ble goblins. Never heard of such a thing before. It is no wonder there’s no more lawyers and great men turned out. Why, they’d want cast iron consti- tutions and brass nerves to go through a college like this. Oh! it’s simply awful, and I’ve got all I want, Wonder where I am, anyway? There’s some light over there—yes, I must be on the roof looking down upon the city. Wonder what time it is? Ob, I only wish it was morning so I could see where I was and how to get down. I’m awful sleepy, but I can’t sleep here. What shall Ido, anyhow?. I shall never be a lawyer—no—no—I can’t stand the education, if this is che way they get it,” and feeling cautiously aronnd he made sure of his position, as well as he could, and then aoubled himself up, leaned against a chimney, and tried fo compose himseif for what little sleep he cquid get between that time and morning. And sieep he finally did, and when the chapel bell began to ring for morning prayers, he was enjoying a vivid dream in which he was being carried parang high mid air by an enormous eagle, who held him in his beak, suspended bv the seat of his trousers, The first stroke of the bell roused him so suddenly that he af first thought the eagle of his dream had dropped him. But the first half dozen clangs con- vinced him that it was a bell, and then he half re- membered where he was and what had happened ‘iiin. He rubbed his eyes and gazed curiously and cau- tiously around. It was broad daylight, and the huin of the slowly rousing city beneath him caught his ear. Yes, all around him he co see. the city, and although he was not familiar with any portion of if, yet he knew what it was, and a little of where and what he was. ‘ (; “Wal, by thunder, if this don’t beat tater bugs,” he mused, after looking around a moment or two ; “wonder if those spooks have cleared out? It don’t seem possible, but I saw ’em with my own eyes, or eise I’ve had a bad case of nightmare and crawled up here in my sleep. Wonder where I came up, any- how?” and he began to inspect the various scuttles on the roof. Then he tried two or three ef those nearest to him. But each one of them was securely fastened, and this fact puzzled him all the more, In fact, for a few mo- ments he wasn’t so certain but that instead of a dream it was a reality abont the eagle, and that he had been dropped on the roof ofthe building after all, “Tt beats all natur’,”’? he mused; and creeping to- ward the edge of the roof, he looked over, and saw a string of students wend their way to the chapel, the bell of which was still tolling. Then he mused some more. “Pll bet that’s the breakfast-bell. That darned old professor said I might have a night’s lodging and my breakfast. I’ve had all the lodging I want, and now I want some breakfast. I don’t care if it isn’t any bet- ter than the lodging—I can eat it; I can eat a horse and pick my teeth with his shoes, But how in thunder can I get down?” He picked up his ruined gripsack, and began to walk around to see if he could find any way to get down. from his lofty chamber. But the only way he could see was to fe ah as that might deprive him of his breakfast, in fact, of all future breakfasts, he concluded not to try it. : Going to one of the scuttle covers; he began to : pound on it with the hee].of his boot. Pll be everlastingly curry-combed if I don’t wake up somebody!’ he growled. . After pounding for five minutes or sucha matter, he did wake up somebody, in the person of the janitor of the building, but not the one he had previously met. He couiedn’t for the life of him make out what the poundin# meant, but he was titat sort of a man to find out all about it without loss of time. the steps and threw up the cover, His gaze rested on Jethro Mullen, and if ever a fel- ,0w looked like a tramp, or some of those used-up men we sometimes see on the stage, he did. ‘“‘Who in thunder are you ?? demanded the janitor, savagely. § : “Ym Jethro Mullen.’? : “What do you want?” “JT want my breakfast. up here all day, do you?” / “Who and what are you??? “Jethro Mullen, I tell you.” ee tas “But that’s no answer.) ‘ So he mounted Don’t s’pose I want to stay “Wal, it’s the truth, I want my breakfast, and "ve that’s all I want of this blarstea college anyhow. got my consarned belly full ofeverything but grub.” “T don’t understand you. What right haye you to expect breakfast here ?”? “Why, Professor Blobbs told me I could have lodg-- ing and breakfast here,”’ “When ?? i “Tast night when he examined me.” “ xamined you!’? YG AY “Well, he must have examined you with a pitch. fork, I guess.” “Yes, a Latin pitchfork, and no mistake. didn’t pass,’? he added, with a sigh, “ Well, I should say not. But you look as though you had ‘passed’? under a potato-digger. How came you up here?” But I “Lemme down, and Vl tell you all about it,” said Jethro, ‘Come down and get out, then.” “ No, sir-ee—not until I've had my breakfast. Can’t fool me out of that,’’ said he, as he came slowly and stifly down the steps, “Now where did you come from??? demanded the janitor, after he had reached the floor. 3 “Bennington, Vermont. Came down here yester- day to go through this college, but the Latin got the pit of me, and l’ye got to go back again, gosh dang it! *“ But liow came you out on that roof?” . “Wal, I don’t hardly know. Professor Blobbs put me to bed last night after I couldn’t pass, and told me he would see that } had my breakfast this morning.” ; face he didn’t put you up on the roof to sleep, did e j “No, put me into a regular room, but some time in the night I woke np and found my room full of the allfiredist hobgoblins that was ever seem, and they drove me out of the bedand out upon the roof’ “Now, what sort of a yarn {s this you are giving me? Don’t for a moment think I’m fool’ enough to believe it.” 3 Eka) “It’s a gospil fact. Ask Blobbs.’? f “JT wouldn’t make such a fool of myself as to agk him; I believe you to be a tramping thief, aud shal hold you until T can send for an ofMlcer.’?” : “Oh, don't do that; I’m all right.” : “Yes, you look so.’” Lape y q ; “ Wal, appearances are against me, I know, but that happened vesterday.”? - , “ Railroad smash-up ?”* “No, physical culture.” “Where?” cg +
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4 ‘TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. 1 “ At the gymnasium.* Are you the chap that some of the boys put through yasterday 7”? asked the janitor, while a big grin began to steal over his face. - ‘Put through? Wal, I should say so; put me right through a window.’? “And I guess they put you up on the roof also. Come to Professor Blobbs’ study, for [strongly suspect you have been fooled all the while,” said he, leading the way down-stairs. ‘But how about breakfast? I don’t want to be fooled out of that also.” “Oh, breakfast won’t be ready for an hour yet. Come along.” + Jethro followed, but he half suspected that this was another ‘‘job” to do him outof his grub. ~ They went out of that building and into another, arriving ot the door of Professor Blobbs’ room just as that individual was returning from the chapel, serv- ices being over. “There he is; that’s him |’? exclaimed Jethro, Ngee bn AY the pompous professor. ‘Now, you ask him,’? e didn’t know what a compliment he was paying to Bill Gunn when he recognized the professor whom he had mimicked ! The professor stopped as they;met, and looked won- deringly at Jethro. ‘“ Who is this?’ he asked of the janitor. ‘He says his name is Jethro Mullen.” “That's me, professor. Don’t you remember last night?” asked Jethro, while a sickly smile crept over his face. ** Last eat What of last night, sir??? “Why, when you examined me.’? I examined no one last night. What Come along,” “No, I tell you——” “Come along !)? “And you told me I should have my breakfast.’” - “Take him away!’? and Blobbs entered his room. ' © Come along, or I’ll snatch what few clothes off you have left.” : : “ al, I swanny, this beats sheep-shearing. Arn’t I going to have any breakfast? “ Yes, if they’ll give you some at the police station,’’ replied the janitor. ; a “Thunder! Going to arrest me, hey?” Yes, sir Pp? + Z GJ ml if this arn’t going through college on the dead ran, 1’m a pickle,” mused Jethro: *s You are in a pickle at all events.” - “T should say so,’? he sighed. As they left the building who should they meet but the other janitor; the one who had directed Jethro where to go, and who had been greatly puzzled to understand his sudden disappearance. ““Hallao, Mullen,’ said he. ; ‘Ah, there’s a man that’ knows me l’? exclaimed Jethro, suddenly brightening up. ‘Where are you going—where did you night? ‘ “Don’t ask me. I’m all tore to pieces.?? ‘Well, you do look a trifle worse than when I saw you last. Where have you been?” **Boen examined.” : Both janitors langhed heartily, but they did not Know that Tommy Bounce and Bill Gunn were watch- ing, overhearing, and laughing quite as heartily. But they were. ; “Oh, the fellow must be crazy. He said that Pro- fessor Blobbs examined him, so I took him to the pro- fessor, who says he never saw him before, and that he must be an escaped lunatic,’ said Sprague. . “No, he isn’t. Some of the boys have been giving him a terrible racket. Come with me to the vice chancellor, and we'll soon haye this business settled,” he added, turning to Jethro. “ Oh, it’s all settled now,” moaned he, “ How 50?” “TJ was examined and rejected,” “Nonsense! Didn’tI tell you yesterday to look out for those hazers |”? “wal, so I did, didn’t 1? “*T shonld say they looked out for you. Come along; you have been fooled.” ‘With a look of sheepishness added to his general broken up appearance, he followed the janitor to the room of the vice chancellor, where he was introduced, and a short explanation given to account for his con- dition, Care " ; ‘This official was very indignant, and threatened vengeance dire and deep upon the rascally hazers, should he ever be so fortunate as to find them ont. - “TY am very sorry and greatly mortified, Mr. Mul- len, that you should haye had such a barbarous intro- duction te our institution.” ‘Wal, I don’t feel very kittenish over it myself, professor, but Isuppose my looks showed them how green I was, and they thought they’d have some fan with me. They did have some fun with me, and no mistake,”’ he added. “here is no excuse for it, and if the perpetrators of it can be fonnd out they will be expelled.. Janitor, »take Mr. Mullen to a clothing store, and purchase for him, on acconnt of Yale College, a suit of clothes équally as good as those he has had spoiled.” ; ey “Yes, sir? y _“ After which return to mé.”” : go to last ‘Yes, sir. Come, Mr. Mullen.’ 4 “But, I say, how jabout breakfast? I’m awful hun- gry,?? whispered Jethro. ‘ “Oh, wait until we return; it will be time enough len.” ; Somewhat satisfied, but yet half reluctantly, Jethro foliowed the janitor to a clothing store, where he was allowed to select a suit of clothes. Now Jethro had never had’ much experience, and his taste in such matters as appropriate clothing had never been developed to any great extent, and the re- sult of it was that he selected the handsomest suit there was in the store, thinking, probably, that he would disguise and cover up his greenness with it, Then selecting a new hat and valise, he returned to the college, still hungry, but feeling otherwise much better. After showing him into the great dining-hall, where several hundred students were breaking their fasts, and giving him a chance to do the same with hisown, Jethro began to feel like a new man. " But Tommy Bounce and the gang had discovered him, and indulged in 3 royal good laugh at his changed appearance, as well as at the remembrance of the fun they had with him the day before. “ Boys, there’s a whole magazine of fun in that chap, but we must lay low for a few days to see which way the cat jumps, for most likely he has blown the whole racket,’ said Tommy, as they were coming from breakfast. : ‘“ Wonder how he got down from the roof?’ asked two or three of them. é “Oh, we'll find out all about itin good time, never fear. Butif hehas given us away, and can identify us, it may pe ‘dog days’ for us here. But each fellow ae swear he. never saw the duffer before in the world. =| “Oh! we can all do that,’’ said Bill Bigby, speaking for the gang. “Well; let us all keep quiet for a week, and by that time something will be sure to develop itself. Don’t let him see that you notice him if you happen to meet m. 5 ‘** All right,’? and with this they separated. Well, to make this part of a long story short, Jethro Mullen was examined in the regular way, and passed ’ | examination without the slightest trouble, and, to his great relief and joy, he was admitted as a freshman to Yale College. But even outside of the particular gang that had given him such a wild introduction, there were dozens of other students who were ready to play jokes on him, for in spite of new clothes he looked quite as green as he was, and they could not resist the temptation of “having some fun with him,” although, strange to Say, he failed to recognize one of the first party of his tormentors. Now, Jethro Mullen was not long in finding out that | he was a natural butt for the students, and that even freshmen regarded him as such, Neither did it take him long to find out that a good’ share of those students were decidedly fast; that they were amateur sportsmen; that they had private societies, with mys- |” teriouS names and doings; that they had boat clubs, ball clubs, horseback clubs—in fact, that they indulged in almost everything that would smooth the ragged edge of study, although the college faculty knew little or nothing regarding them. So Jethro concluded that if he ever expected to be one of the boys, he would have to do the same things that the other students did. But how to accomplish it he did not know. In the first place it cost money, which he had not to spare, and in the second place it required a-natural taste for such things, which had as ie never been developed in him. How should he work There was one student in that college who could coach him to perfection, and that was Tommy Bounce. Now it must be known that Tommy had been playing a shrewd game in order to work himself into the good graces of Jethro, and to secure him for his own gang, who felt that he belonged to them by right of first dis- covery; so in order to make himself solid with Jethro, he had taken his part one day when some fellows were about to haze him, and had thereby won his gratitude. From that moment they became friends, and as Jethro’ soon learned that Tommy was one of the thoroughbreds of the college, ne appealed to him for sas regarding how he should become one him- self. @ommy was only too anxious to tell him. “You want to be a tough, eh?” : “Wal, yes, if that’s what you callit. The fellow: all think ’m green, and they poke fun at me,’ said he, half mournfully. * And you want to ripen up?” ‘Guess it would be better for me. But I hayen’t any money to throw, away, as you fellows have.’? “Oh, that’s all right. You stick by our crowd, and it wono’t cost you a cent, and you'll have just as much fun as we do.” “That's all right, but I don’t want to do anything that’s naughty, you know.’’ “What! Ours is the most pious gang in the college, isn’t it, Bill?” he asked of his chum. “You are right, itis. Mr. Mullen, we will lead you gently through the meandering paths of outside learn- ing, and polish your whistle so you can play a tune on it with any sophomore in college,” replied Bill Gunn, soberly. t f “Wal, I aren’t much of a musician,” replied Jethro, not catching the drift of Bill’s hyperbole. “Oh, that’s all right, Jethro. We'll be your friends, Come up to our room any time, and we'll give you a EW lessons. We'll take this freshness off in no (4 \ “Pll do it, by gosh!” said he, shaking Tommy cor- dially by the hand. : CHAPTER Y. 8 TomMY BOUNCE had now got Jethro Mullen ‘ee where he wanted him; that is to say, he had won him away from the other students, and adopted him om behalf ofhisowngang. . : There was a large vein of good feeling in his nature, notwithstanding his larger one of mirth and deviltry, and although he calculated on having considerable fun in one way and another with Jethro, yet’ he knew that he was poor, and so he resolved to work things so that it should not cost him a cent. But Jethro, as is known by this time, was dreadfully green, never having been twenty miles from the home where he was born until he started for Yale College, and now the boys flattered themselves ‘that they were doing a good thing by taking him especially to them- selves and shielding him from the other students, who would haze him rougher and more openly. And so long as he was ambitious ,to become one of the boys, why should they not flatter themselyes that they were doing an act of charity? 4 On his part, Jethro was delighted, althov he had but a dim idea of what his ‘‘ outside education ” was to be like, always having been a good boy at home, and never indulged in any of those rackets which- brighten the minds and toughen the muscles of other youths. But he liked Tommy Bonnce and his party, and nothing could have pleased him more than the adoption which they’so generously extended to him. And they liked him. The very next night Jethro thought he would pay a visit to the room occupied by con and Bill, and there make his first acquaintance with that band oi goody-good students, and so he fixed himself up in elaborate style so as to make a favorable impression. He heard loud laughter as he neared the door of the room, and his own name mentioned. . “Oh, they think I’m greener than grass, but I'll soon show them how well I can learn. Guess they don’t know how I was hazed the first day I came here—hope ay. don’t,” he mused, and then he rapped on the oor. : ; Instantly there was a hush, followed by a rattling of glasses and dishes as though being hastily gathered- up, and when, after a moment’s delay, Bill Gunn opened the door, Jethro beheld about a dozen students industriously poring over their books, and looking as honest as sheep. ; ‘“* Halloo! Why, it’s our friend, Jethro Mullen,’’ said Bill. “Come rightin.? _ , “Yes, come right in,’ said they all, throwing away their books. $F f “How de du, boys? Glad to see you,’’ said Jethro, straddling into the room, « Hope I don't disturb you at your studies??? _. “ Studies!"? “ Bahl” ““No; you disturbed us atsomething a devilish sight better,’’ said Tommy. “That's so,” said they all. “Tn fact, fellows, if Jetbro passes his first degree to- night, he must have the Open, Sesame signal.” “The what ?? asked Jethro, wonderingly. “Never mind now. We thought you was old Blobbs. Come, toughs, again to the front! said the gallant Tommy. ‘ While Jethro was gazing from one to the other, and trying to make out the meaning, a quick transforma- tion took place directly under his understanding it. The room contained three closets, the doors of which were opened by three different fellows, and on the in- side of these doors were fastened tables which were loaded with oysters, cakes, bottles of beer, and other evidences of a coming feast, while the eenter-table was simultaneously strewn with packs of cards, and a couple pairs of boxing gloves, and a pair of foils were brought from some hiding-place. \ There wasn’t a book to be seen, or a student who wanted one, but they had things thus artistically ar- Tanged so that it could be changed from this scene to a studious one at the first alarm of danger. - Jethro stood with open eyes and mouth, and looked £0 surprised that they conld but laugh at {his appear- ance, “What's the matter, Jethro?’ asked Tommy. “Wal, I swanny !? exclaimed he, ‘* What about 2?” ; “Why, I didn’t see any of these things before.” “Of course not, and you wouldn’t see them in two seconds from now if we heard a strange knock on the door. Come, toughs, help yourselves. Jethro?” he added. ‘ “Wal, I don’t know. Never tasted of them. What are they like?” By this time the others were making a grand charge upon the Inscious beauties, and doing their best to de them under their vests as rapidly,as possible, If Was a sort of a g0-as-you-please race to see who would get the most. ‘Here, try one,” said Tommy, placing a hnge oyster on 4 plate, and handing it to him with a fork. “Swallow that, and see how you like if,” “ Swallow it whole?” : “Certainly. It spoils oysters to cut them. Make: them feel sort of ‘cent ui ? you know. Don’t you see how we do it?” asked Bill Digby, swallowing one. : “But you don’t want to watch these fellows for any considerable length of time; if you ao, there’ll be no more oysters left.’”? eh cies Jethro jabbed his fork into the oyster, and preceed- ed to lift it towards his month. aK his yery nose without Love oysters, “Tp she goes!” cried several. t : h Jethro opened his big mouth as he'poised the oyster sot ypine aecael ier oeac ates ** Down she goes!’ they cried, as he dro 1 it inte his huge opening. if * Ho ; - y
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o TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. ¢ « “Well, here is to our new comrade, Jethro Mullen, may he yet be one of the boys.’ ‘*Hi—hil” and the toast was drank. Jethro followed the example, and, to tell the truth, he rather liked the beverage. “ How’s that; up to cider??? “ Wal, that’s pretty nice,” said he. ‘Have some more??? - Wal, no—-” if “Yes, you will. Here,’? and Tommy poured him out another glass. s e ‘Give your oyster a swim,’ said Joe Brick. “Give us a toast,’? suggested Mark Harmer. “Wal, here’s hoping we'll like each other when we get better acquainted,” said he. . “Hi—hi! Drink her down!’ Jethro drank it with pride. “Now, let’s to study,’ said Digby. fe “Agreed !? and half a dozen of them took seats at the large center-tabie where the cards lay. ‘Now,’ thought Jethro, ‘the real sober part of the visit commences, and I shall be able to get some valu- able hints about Horace.” ~ “What shall it he—Latin or Greek ??? “ Hoyle’s Latin ; Oldibus Stedgibus.”? ‘All right,”? and they began to deal the cards, while Jethro looked on in perfect amazement. “What sort of Latin was it they studied by the aid of playing- cards? Each man filled and lighted a pipe, and one was given by Tommy to Jethro. ohne “Parse a Latin sentence, Jethro 7? asked Bill Rack- aboy, turning to him. ““N-n-no, I gness I don’t understand it.’? “‘Oh, simplest Latin in the world,’’ said he, dealing the cards to the others. ‘Phe game began between four of them at one table an two at another, while Tommy Bounce and Mark “Tt beals ult natur’,” he mused ; and creeping towards the edye of the roof, he looked over and saw a string of students wending their way to the chapel. Then after Tommy and Mark had pounded each other all they wanted to, they filled their pipes and took up the foils, the “‘hit”? being to Knock the pipe from the other’s mouth. Wii Tommy won the “hit,” and then he treated every- body to beer; Jethro began to like it and to think that college life was not so bad after all, and that languages and hard lessons did not make up the entire measure of niversity existence—in which he was right. 7 While the others were employed, Jethro put on a pir of the boxing-gloves, only to see how they felt, but when Bill Gunn askea Ati if he could spar, he said he had never tried it, but he guessed he could. | “Put on the mitts with him, Bill,” said several, and further interest in cards was soon lost. “All right,’? said he, putting on the other pair. The gang pushed away the table so as to give them more room. “Put np your ‘dukes!’ ” said Bill, atthe same time setting him the example. ““My what?” he asked, wonderingly. “Your bunches of fives.”? : “T don’t understand you.” “Your potato mashers; your fists !’? ‘Oh, that’s what you mean”? He put them up awkwardly. “Now look out for your nose.” * All right,” and he grinned confidently. They sparred for a moment, Bill giving him several pheno to get in on him, one of which he managed to mprove. The gang gave him a round of appiatise, and insist- ed on drinking his health in another glass of beer, which was accordingly done. j Then they began again, and Jethro gota tap on the nose that made him snort, and it likewise made him mad. Hebegan to force the fighting, but of: course \ ~ \
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TOMMY BOUNCE, UJr., IN COLLEGE. > —_— no le——oOoOown5=$z“0“O0O3Toww lH eee cn IPE ALL EOL TI EE TE TRE Es SA ES DSS IT A I EE EE REL EE I ES AS TT could do nothing with such a boxer as Bill was, First he would catch one on the nose; then one of his | peepers would get a ‘‘sock’ which would mdke him see stars, after which his potato trap would receive attention; in fact, Bill did anything with him that he wished to, butting him on his hearing box, first one and then the other, spanking him before, behind, and | o¢ “ «For he's a jolly good fellow! For he’s a jolly good fellow!! For he’s a jolly geod fellow!!! Which nobody can deny!’ ”” Tommy sang this as a part of the toast and then the hers took it up, and prolonged it in the most indefi- all around, greatly to the amusement of everybody but | nite manner, going over it twice. Jethro. But he soon got enough of this and retired to bathe his swollen and bleeding bugie, while the others brought out what remained of the beer and feast and spread it upon the table, it being so late then that there was not much danger of visitors, After everything had been eaten they fell to pipes pana beer, songs and toasts, Jethro blushed to the roots of his tow-colored hair, for he knew that a speech was expected of him, and having made seyeral such efforts at a debating club in un mailve town, he concluded that he could just aston- ish them. held him lying there on the outside of the bed with his feet on the pillow. Jethro crawled slowly off without saying a word. In fact, he hadn’t a word to say. He gazed at her vacantly, and she stared at him as though he was something decidedly uncommon, which he really was.. with that black nose. “Are yees sick ?”? “Yes. What time is it?” “Nearly noon.” “What !? he exclaimed. “Fut’s the matter wid yer snoot ?” “T got hit last night boxing,’’ he replied, remember: ing the fact, and supposing she referred to its swoller He struggled to his feet with some difficuity, and | proportions. balanced himself with still more, after which, and rT | Hh Hv a H H Prater cr ueccerues Cc Rn MLCT ait FF RG “Did it get kilt entoirely ?”” “I guess I’ve had enough,” he said, with some diffiiculty. ‘‘ Guess I wasn’t cut out for a tough.” ‘Oh yes, you are. “Sing us a song, Jethro,?? said Tommy. “‘ Jethro—Jethro, a song from Jethro!’ was the cry, and Jethro looked around wild. ““Gen-el-men, I don’t shing,” replied Jethro, who . was by this time pretty full of beer. ‘Oh, yes, you can, go ahead,” “Give us a song.” “Don’t know any.’? “ Give us anything, Jethro—Jethro Mullen!’?. “All right, PN sing you Kitty Wells. ‘who was she?” “CA gal’? “Oh, go ahead, Now, then,” Jethro cleared his throat and began. but broke down after the first half of the first and last verses, having forgotten it, which was a very good thing for the credit Of Miss Wells, for of all the bad singers ever heard, he was the worst. But the boys applauded him to the echo, and called for more beer, claiming to have never heard better singing, and regretting that he had forgotten the re- mainder of the song. Jethro was flattered, Tommy Bounce was determined to get a speech out of him now, so rising with all the gravity of an owl, he said: ‘Gentlemen, it isn’t often that I get on my pins to trouble you with a neat and appropriate Speech; but on this occasion, when we are honored with the presence of a freshman who has delighted our startled ears with what I may call a flood of har- mony, I feel that I am ‘bound ‘to speak. Mr. Mullen is a freshman, it is true, but we have seen enough of him since he has honored our ancient Atma Mater, with his presence to convince us that he was not cast in a common mold. I propose that we stand, and with our last glass of beer drink to the health of Jethro Mullen, Chorus, gents! several blinks, he was understood to speak as fol- lows: ~ “ Genelum anladies, [cheers} I meangenelum, [good boy] customd syam plic speakn, I—I—[great cheering] feel bliged drinkmyel. I’m freshman, genelum, an’ prou title, [cheers]. My frien Bounce says I'm fresh- man—hic—pron title, sobeyou! Genelum, werall jol- goodfles, anwe wogohotillmornin, wedoncare whezzer sSchoolkeep, dontit? [yes—yes]! I’m freshlem, prow- title. Come here ter be lawyer. Gladofit, prowtitle. Genlum, werall (drunk] werall freshlem once, donit? Coursherbe—hic—Genlum, I—I feelsleepy,’”? saying which he sat back into his chair, from which he slid under the table and was soon fast asleep. He did not hear the roars of laughter that attended his unexpected ‘disappearance, for the beer made him eblivious to everything. They pulled him out from under the table and laid him upon a settee, after which they proceeded to sew his shirt and pants together at the waistband so that it could not be undone very easily. Then they painted his nose with some black paint, placed an empty bot- tle in each coat-pocket, and then appointed a commit- tee of four to see him home, This part of the business wasn’t half so funny as the other had been, for he was as dead as a log, and they were obliged to carry him up three flights of stairs to his room, where they were glad enough to pitch him upon the bed, clothes and all on, and leave him there to find himself in the morning. But only think of that head of his in the morn- ng! The chanel bell failed to arouse him, and breakfast had no charms for him. It was not until the old Irish- woman came fo make up his bed at about eleven o’clock, wi en h? should have been at schoo), that he was aroused. , “Howly murther, fut’s this?” she asked as she be- That's allright. “No, only hit.’” “ But it’s dead an’ black.?? “Dead and what?’ he asked, turning to the looking glass, from which he turned back in horror. ‘ Good ness gracious |’? ‘Faith, yer nice lookin’ now, wid a black nose ant a black eye,’ said she, laujhing. ““What the dickens shall I do?” “*Put a poultice on it an’ report sick.” “Good idea. Here is a quarter. Go and make m¢ a poultice,” and glad enough to earn a bit of money she went and made it, Now, it so happened that the paint wastmixed witk oil, and it had dried during the night, so that soap and water would not easily remove it. Oh! how his head ached, and his conscience, too, URE would his parents say if they could see hing now But what would they have said after the old woman helped him bind that big poultice ovey his mug! He groaned in the agony of remorse, and, to maké it worse, the old woman laughed at him until she got. a stitch in her side. But she afterwards did him the- favor to send Tommy Bounce to his room, and with him went the whole gang. And such a laugh! “What the devil is the matter with you??? asked Tommy, and Jethro explained about the black nose. “Oh! that’s nothing. Lager beer always serves a. man that way when they drink it for the first time. We all had black noses, didn’t we, fellows, when we: first drank it?” “To be sure we did,” said they all, laughingly. “T guess I’ve had enough,’? he said, with Some dif-- - ficulty. ‘Guess 1 wasn’t cut ont for a tough.” “Oh! yes, you are. That's allright. We'll give you. a new degree when your nose gets well,” replied Tomm- my, laughing. : 5 . ee
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LG TOMMY BOUNCE, SJr., IN COLLEGE. CHAPTER VI. . WE left Tommy Bounce and the gang of students in ~ Jethro Mullen's room, trying to get his spirits up, and “to make him believe that he hadn't received half - enough ‘outside education ” yet, notwithstanding he ‘had been carried to his room as drunk as a boiled =9wl, and decorated with a black eye which he had're- <ceived while using the boxing gloyes with Bill Gunn, and a black nose which Tommy had given him with a paint brush after he became insensible. He had poultieed his nose, thinking to draw the dis- coloration away from it, and taken all in all he was saout the funniest and most woebegone looking sspecimen of humanity that was ever seen; and the ®oys laughed at him to their heart’s content, although, having gone to bed with his clothes on, he had not yet found out that his shirt and pants were sewn together at the waistband. : But they told hlm that lager beer always affected people that way when they drank it for the first time, and assured him that the black would alldisappear in afew hours. So after having heaps of fun with him, ut on the whole leaving him in much better spirits vhan they found him, they went away to tell the joke and laugh about it outside. . Towards night he remoyed the poultice from his ose to see how it was gétting along, when, greatly to his surprise and delight, the paint came off with it, deaving quite a respectable looking smeller, although, satrange to say, he never tumbled to the racket at all. - “The black eye, however, failed to quit him quite so @uddenly, and he wore the badge ofhis first boxing ‘lesson for a week or more. But he finally-recovered and was as fresh. as ever, “when Tommy Bounce again took him in hand for further instructions, assuring him that he was getting salong first-rate, both with his inside and ‘outside eUucation,” and that what he now needed was to be- vcome a member ofa certain secret society, to make im respected among both freshmen and sophomores. He worked upon him in this way until Jethro con- ecluded to try it, although not without quite a num- ‘ber of misgivings, for he was not so green as not to see that’ the gang who was superintending his “ educa- — sion ” were at the same time having heaps of fan with | - fim “Do you really think I had best join this order .of “American Knights?’ he asked, of Tommy Bounce, sthe day after he assured him tliat he would do so. “Why, cert, old fel, what’s the matter with you? Beginning to weaken?” asked Tommy. They were on the way to recitation when the con- ~versation took place, 7 “Wal, no, not exactly. “But somehow or other it yseems to me shat you fellows get more fun out of these rackets, as you call them, than I do,” replied alethro, soberly. 2 * Nonsense; there is no fun tn the matter at all, my -dear fel; on the contrary, it is all very serious.” Jethro thought so, too, when he remembered his wirst night’s experiences. “ Besides, if you do suspect that there is any fun in the business, why, when, you get all through you can vanjoy all there is to enjoy wnen some other fellow is Seing instructed.’ | “But I have heard that they put a chap through sawful in those secret societies.” “No more severe than the laws and customs of all hose ancient orders demand. Another thing—you wsan neyer graduate until you have become a mem- “ber of the secret, societies of the college, for such is ‘she custom and usage of every institution in the vvorld.”? ‘Ts that so??? “Fact, I assure you.” Jethro. was thoughtful. “Now, if you value my advice worth anything, «Jon’t you weaken or show even a white pin-feather. At is what every student of every college has to go “through, and if they do nof, they will not only not be sallowed to graduate with any record, but will be sub- jected to all sorts of abuse and annoyance from first ‘to last. Now I’m giving it to you straight and on whe dead leyel, and if you want to be one of the boys —one of the gang—you must brace right up and show aciase.’? “What's that, Tommy ?”” “Why, show your metal; forif the boys find you ~weaken, they will make it hotter than dog days for “you, and don’t you forget it.” “Oh, I won't weaken ; only I wanted to know if it args Realy necessary that I sheuld join these socie- ‘sles. “why, cert.» Don’t I tell you? Besides, the initia- stion will post yon in several things that you could mot learn otherwise, and which will be of great inter- zest and pdvantage to you as you progress in your studies.’ “ All right, Vibgo in; but don’t say anything to any- ody that [asked you anout. the matter, for you are ) the only confidential friend I haye got here.”? “Oh, that’s all right, old fel.” And so they separated for their respective class- “rooms. The conversation had braced Jethro Mullen ‘mip to the sticking point, and he resolyed to show them ~vhat sort of a fellow he was. But of course tlie ~reader Knows how much of a friend Tommy Bounce mwas to bir, * 3 So at the next regular meeting of the American iKnights there was a large crowd present, this being +one of the most popular secret societies of the college, sand as they naturally expected to have a good subject for fun. every member was on hand. As a secret. society among students, it unites them during their lives quite as much as Freemasonry or aOddfellewship does, although, unlike these orders, it is _ wimply a burlesque of them, although some portions vw of the initiation are quite as solemn and impressive as any that these ancient orders can boast of. Doubtless many, if not all of my readers have heard something about these secret societies which exist in all colleges, but for their information I will let them into the lodge-room and show them just how Jethro Mullen was put through in order to become an * American Knight.” The students had a private hall of their own a short distance from the college, and it was fitted up with all the appliances that an extensive and yaried ritual called for. Only two or three of Tommy Bounce’s gang were officers in the lodge, although they all belonged to it, of course, the officers and leaders generally belonging to the older classes, who took especial delight in initiating the freshmen who came to the college to finish their education, evidently believing that noth- ing else would put such a complete polish upon a student as becoming an American Knight. But who these officers were was never known to the initiate until he had received all the degrees, Jethro Mullen was waiting in the anteroom to re- ceive his first degree, and in spite of his brave re- solves, it must be confessed that he was a trifle nerv- ous. He was in the custody of two guards, who wore cowls and masks, and they did not quiet his neryous- ness much, if any, by the mufiied conversation they held, for it was mostly about how such and such an one got hurt by being put through the initiations, or how some other one had got drowned while trying to swim “the watery cave,’ all of which was said for the purpose of getting him on a string. ™ But presen‘ly there was a rattling of chains on the inside of the door leading to the miain hall, and after the pushing back of several big bolts (all this seemed to be so, mind you), the door was flung open, and a man dressed in complete, shining steel armor—com- plete from head to foot—and with his vizor down, en- tered the anteroom. “Is there a pilgrim here who is desirous of being initiated into the noble and ancient Order of American Knights?” asked the Grand Guide,for such was this ofiicer’s designation. * Y_y—yes,”? stammered Jethro. “Are you that pilgrim?” “Wal, I didn’t know as I was a pilgrim, butI sup- pose I am,” said he, trying to smile. “No levity, pilgrim! Are you now prepared to as- sume the tests of that initiation?” : “Y_—ves,”? , ; “It is well,” said the Guide, placing a halter rope about his neck; and then, taking the other end of it, he said: “Follow me? — - Just then Jethro got his first shiver, and he could feel it running up and down his spine, causing his hair to stand. : i The Grand Guide approached the door leading to the hall, and which had been elosed after him, and ane uponit with his mailed fist, striking three ows. A vdice within: “Wiiose mailed hand is it that beats upon our battlements ?’’ £ Grand Guide: “The Grand Guide, who has a pil- grim wishing to be made an American Knight.’? Voice within: ‘Wait until the Grand Commander shall be apprised.’? : Then followed a moment of silence so intense that Jethro could only hear the beatings of his own. heart. Presently the sound of clanking chains and bolts, and &@ voice calling: ‘‘Swing back the portcullis and let the Grand Guide present himself to the inner guard with the password.’? At this the door was flung. open, and before an- other one, which led into the hall, two men in armor stood with crossed swords. \The Grand Guide ap- proached them with his own sword reversed, and whispered a word first to one and then to the other, at which they nodded and bade him take his pilgrim before the Grand Commander. The inner door was now flung open and the Guide led Jethro into a darkened hall; so dark that he could not distinguish a face of the hundred or two students who stood up in solemn platoons, each dressed in a oon cowl, the hood of which covered his whole ead, And as they entered an organ struck up a Solemn march, the grim music of which completely filled the large hall. With his “pilgrim” in tow, the Grand Guide began to march.around the hall, and after com- pleting the awful circuit twice, they halted and both knelt before the open tent of the Grand Commander, a occupied the place of honor at-the end of the all. ""Then the organist changed from the solemn march he had been playing to an invocation, the same one, by-the-by, that the Peruvians sing in the play of “ Pizarro,’? and the cowled students sang: “Oh, power supreme, in mercy smile, With favor on thy servant’s toil, Our hearts from guileful passions free . Which here we render unto thee.” The effect was solemnand grand, and if Jethro had entertained any doubts regarding the awfulness of the order before, he now felt that he was standing on the verge of something of the most funereal nature. As the last note of the invocation died away, the Guide and his pilgrim arose to their feet. ° } “Sir Knight and Sir Guidé, whom haye you here??? asked the Grand Commander, in a down-cellar voice. “A pilgrim who is desirous of becoming one of us, worthy Grand Commander.” “Has his character been found to be above re- proach, Sir Guide ?? B “Tt has, Worthy Grand.” “By whom??? — . “The Grand and Secret Council of Ten.’ “Jtis well. Pulgrim, is it your wish and determina- tion to take upon yourself the terrible oaths; to sub- mit to the startling tests, that the coronet of knight hood may rest rightfully upon your brow, ard the sword of honor be harnessed to your side? Answer.’? “Yes, sir,” replied Jethro, faintly. oh “Take him before the Vice Grand Commander for further questioning.”? The music was quite a lively march this time, and still holding one end of the rope, the Guide hurried Jethro to the other end ofthe hall and before the tent of the Vice Grand Commander, while those who had pe standing now took seats for the first part of the un. “Whom have you here, Sir Guide?’ . “A pilgrim desirous of becoming one of us,’ re- peated the Guide, * Pilgrim, whet is your namel”? “Jethro Mullen,’? “Jethro Mullen is his name!’’ shouted the Vice Grand, which shout was immediately repeated by the Grand Commander—then by the Chancellor, then in chorus by everybody, after which the Recorder shout- ed: “Recorded |? and banged a big gong, which, re- verberating through the hall, made Jethro’s hair stand again, and the sweat start from every pore. ~ “Are you a true American Mullen??? “Yes, sir,’? he replied, without seeing the joke. “He is a true American Mullen !” he eried, and this in turn by the other officers, until that one with the gong shouted: Recorded |? and banged it again, All this officer had to do was simply to pound the gongin the most. effective manner, and shout: * Re- corded !?? in double bass. Pres ‘Well, Mr, Jethro Mullen, before asking you to take: : upon yourself the oaths and obligations of Knighthood, it is but simplé justice that we ask you again ifyou are willing and anxious to take those oaths and obliga. tions 7”? p : “ey am.” “He takes !? shouted the officer, which cry was repeated 28 before, and finally, ‘* Recorded.” ; ‘Allow me to congratulate you on your courage and determination. Guide, show him the awful re- mains, after which remove him to the ante-room, and return with him clothed as a suppliant pilgrim, seeking the honors of knighthood,” said the Vic. Grand Commander, — Music again in the shape of a dirge, and Jethro was marched to the center of the hall, where a pall was suddenly remoyed from a coffin, Gispiayie tue ghastly remains (in wax) ofa beheaded man, Jethro recoiled in terror, for, by the dim light, it looked like an actua’ corpse. : : “Pilgrim, behold the remains of a recreant Ameri can Knight!’ shouted the Grand Commander, i ‘* Death to traitors!’? shouted the crowd, in a dread- ful chorus. “Pilgrim Mullen, those bloody remains not long ago possessed life; not long ago, when alive, he took upon himself the vows of knighthood and afterwards proved recreant to them. He was not suffered to live. this terrible sight »e impressed upon your mind for- ever. Departl?? Let” That was just what Jethro was glad to do, forhe was. horrified at the sight, so the guide conducted him back to the ante-room. But no sooner had the door closed behind him than a complete and instantaneous change came oyer those — solemn knights, the cowls and masks were thrown aside, and the merry. faces of two hundred students came full in view, while the ‘ bloody remains?’ were hustled into a glove where different kinds of paraphernalia were cept. Some of them capered about the hall, some shook hands over what had been and what was to come, while others arranged the different traps and contriv- ances to be used in further initiation. PY Jethro in the meanwhile was being securely blind- folded, for what was to follow was not for him to see, He groaned in spirit and wanted to ask the Guide if he didn’t think it was awful, but-he didn’t dare to do it. The gas was turned up bright. and — There seemed to be only one way, and that was to brace up and take it. ‘ By the time he was again taken into the hall every- thing was ready for the first degree, and quiet had been restored. The Guide placed him before the Grand Commander, while the other knights got themselves into as comfortable positions as they could to witness the fun. ‘*Ts the pilgrim still resolved, Sir Guide?” ““Heis, Worthy Grand.’ 5 “Then take him before the worthy Vice-Grand to receive the oaths which will make him a member of this glorious order 6f American Knighthood, founded by the immortal Washington.” Jethro was placed in a kneeling position before the Vice-Grand. $4 “Pilgrim Mullen, repeat after me, inserting after the pronoun ‘I’? your own name; ‘I, Jethfo Mullen, on my bended knees, grasping the naked sword. of knight. hood, solemnly promise and swear that I will never reyeal the secrets of the order of American Knights which I shall receive during my initiation; that I will obey all superior officers in everything; that I will pro- tect with my life a brother American Knight, his wife, sweetheart, sisters, uncles, cousins and aunts; that.t will share my last cent with him on any occasion; that I will preserve inviolate all signs and passwords be- longing to the order; that I will give away neither them nor any member of the order under any ¢iroum- stances, binding myself under no less an obligation than having my head severed from my body like unto the example I haye seen to-night, and having my j ‘ 7 PO ta: Fag there.
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\ TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. akon te confiscated for the benefit of all brother snights, so help me Moses and keep me braced up |’ ” ** Recorded !” shouted he of the gong. ; “Kiss the sword!” said the Guide, and Jethro, in his aervousness, actually bit it. ‘Now, Sir Guide, take him before the worthy Grand ‘Chancellor that he may be further questioned and in- structed,” : With the perspiration oozing from every pore in his skin, the blindfolded victim was taken to the other side of the hall, where sat the Chancellor, sur- rounded by Tommy Bounce and those who knew the most about him, ready to post the officer with ques- tions to ask the poor devil, “Mr. Mullen, where whre you born ?!? “Bennington, Vermont.” . * Born in the Green Mountain State!’ the Ohancel- lor shouted; as also the other two oflicers, after which it was duly recorded by a bang on the gong. “Mr. Mullen, do you belong to any military or- ganization in your native State?” “No, sir”? “Do you understand the manual of arms?” “No, sir? “He does not understand.” * Recorded!” ~ And then the Commander spoke; ‘Turn him over to the pursuiyant-at-arms,?? Then a new man -took him, and placing a heavy, old-fashioned musket in his hand, he proceeded to put him through the manual of arms, instructing him as he went along, and in such a hurry that it nearly kUled him. So awkwardly did he behave that two or three times he banged his toes with the butt of the musket when he attempted to ‘ groundarms,” causing the crowd to almost burst with suppressed laughter, “That will. do for the present, but you must come here for half an hour every morning before chapel, and be drilled by the pursuivant until you are per- feet in every arm, from a columbiad to a pop-gun. By this you will see that this is a military order, if you did not know it before. Can you swim, Mr. Mullen?” Toate : 7 ‘*A—adlittle? said Jethro, all out of breath. “We must have a specimen of your swimming -abilities:’ What,ho! Warden!” he called, The sound of a person walking from the other end of the hall could'be made out by Jethro, “Warden, is the large tank filled ?? ‘ “Tam sorry to say, Worthy Chancellor, that the tank is still in the hands of the plumbers for repairs,” said the supposed warden, whereat the Chancelfor manifested a deal of indignation, just what the ritual walled for, of course, e “IT -would suggest,” said the Vice-Grand, ‘that in- * somuch as the candidate admits that he can swim a little, and as our tank is empty, that he be placed horizontally upon a stool, resting on his abdomen, and in that position go through the motions of swimming, so that we can get an idea of his stroke.” ; This being finally agreed to, Jethro was placed upon a stool, while his friends gathered around to see his stroke, some of them with handkerchiefs crammed into their mouths to keep them from “laughing out in meeting.” “Now, Mr. Mullen, strike out,” said the Chancellor, and Jethro began to imitate the motions ofa swim- ming frog as best he could. ‘Faster!’ shouted the omicer. “Reach further with your arms! Spread your legs apart further! Harder on your bow oar! Now go it, altogether!’ and poor Jethro never put in such licks before in the whole course of his life; but to encourage him, those who stood around applauded his enforts. “That will do. Have you got his stroke, swimming master?” lie asked, speaking to another imaginary personage, . ‘Very well, then. But, Mr, Mullen, you will also have to spend half an hour each evening in Our tank, for to be a good swimmer is a very im- portant accomplishment for a knight.’”? Jethro was assisted to his feet, and stood there puff- {og like a blown pig. —— OHAPTER VII. JeTHRO MULLEN was being made an “American Knight,” while Tommy Bounce and his gang, as well as nearly all of the students of Yale College, were en- joying the fun of seeing him put through an initiation that made his hair stand, " The first part of the initiation, where he was not blindfolded, although the hall was dimly lighted, had ' been so solemn that he believed every word of it, and never tumbled to one of the rackets they were playing upon him, all the while believing that it was necessary for him to become a knight in order to graduate with » any honors at all. Tommy Bounce had told him this, and now he was going to be made one if it almost Killed him. - The students had never had a better subject, and they * were bound to give it to him with all the quirks and ex- tras, We left him jnst getting up from a three-legged stool where they had had him to strike out and show his swimming stroke. They did this pretending that their tank wherein they usually tested initiates was out ofre- pair /as it always was, this being a part of the racket), » and Jethro “struck out”? to the great delight ofevery- body present. The Grand Chancellor, before whom he was now being examined relative to his qualifications for he- coming a soldier knight, was very thorough in his part of the business, and what he did not think of others suggested to him. . _ “Mr, Mullen, we have no doubt but that you will make a strong swimmer in time, and if we were en- ; * gaged in an active campaign, as we are liable to be, we might have to swim rivers, carrying our muskets and ammunition in our mouths to keep them from getting wet, I trust you see the point?’ c “TI do,” said Jethro, faintly. “He sees it |’? bawled the ChanceHor, and it was re- peated by the other officers and then duly “record- -| ed”? by the Grand Recorder. who banged a big gong nd intoned in a yoice which sounded as though it e through ten joints of stove-pipe; all of which was very solemn to Jethro, although the others were ready to split themselves with suppressed laughter. As a loud laugh would haye given the whole “cir- cus?’ away, they all had to be very guarded, for the business was so*comical that it®would have made a cigar-store Indian laugh. So the reader can judge how hard the fellows had to work to ‘‘hold in.” “There is another thing, Mr. Mullen, that I would like to have go upon the great record at this stage of your initiation. I have before me (in his mind) the record of the findings of the Grand Secret Council of Ten while investigating your character and fitness for the honors of knighthood, and it seems they were somewhat in doubt regarding your courage. Now, while I differ from them slightly, on account of what I haye seen of you this evening, yet itis bat justice to all concerned that you go upon the record before this eae of American Knights, And I will put it to you in this way. Supposing we were out on a cam- paign and in front of the enemy; would you lie in ambush and steal ifito the enemy’s camp forthe good of the order ?”? f “T would,” said Jethro, promptly. ““He would lie and steal for the good of. the order!” thundered the Chancellor, in a tone of triumph. This was aly repeated and ‘recorded’? with an ex- tra bang on the old gong, while several fellows were obliged to go out of the hallin order to give vent to their pent-up laughter. © But Jethro never tumbled. “Jam proud to hear you say so, and it has already pone upon the great recordin yourfayor. But knight- 100d demands even greater tests of your bravery. Bring forth the testing swords!” he called, f ‘i ahey. are here, Worthy Chancellor,’ said the uide.* “-Tis well. Place them in position and give the can- didate the knight’s leap.?” : ; Thereupon the Guide assumed management for a few moments, while poor, blindfolded Jethro stood there wondering what the ‘knight’s leap’? wes like unto, The Guide drew his own sword, and then calling upon two imaginary Sir Knights to hold other sup- posed swords, he proceeded: “Mr. Mullen, do you feel the point of this sword ?? he asked, placing it with the hiltend upon the floor, and guiding Jethro’s hand so that he could feel the point. ; “Yes, I-—” “ Well, the knight’s leap consists in jumping while blindfolded over this sword, without receiving harm from it, and then recoyering yourself so as to leap over another and another, They are placed three feet apart, point upwards. (Will Sir Knight Baily be good enough to hold that sword a little more carefully ?) Now, then, are’you ready?” , Jethro almost wilted in his boots. “Are you ready ?”? “Y—y—yes—that is, I— “Sir Guide, does the candidate falter?’ asked the Grand Chancellor. “Do you hesitate to take the leap??? asked the Guide, severely. “No—n—no, that is——”? “what is??? ‘ Jethro was on the point of asking if they wouldn’t “pass? on that particular deal, but the thought of perhaps more terrible things that they might inflict on him as a penalty made him resolve to put on an as bold a front as possible, although it was plain to be seen that he was very badly frightened. ¢ * Nothing,’ said he. “He does not falter, Worthy Grand Chancelior.”” ‘oTis well. Stand all apartand Jet him take the leap. Is the Grand Surgeon present?” “Tam here, Worthy Grand,”) said somebody. ‘oTis well. Be prepared and stand near the candi- date. Knights, gather near.” twas all that Jethro could do to stand when he heard this conversation, for now it was yery evident that there was danger in this’‘‘ knight’s leap,”? and he bitterly repented having consented to be initiated at all. Bub he neryed himself the best he could, and stood ready for the test, ** Are you all ready?” Mp CLRU ‘Sir Knight Woolley, please hold that sword a little HOKE perpendicular—so. © Now, then, Mr. Mullen, eap!’ : Gathering all the strength he possessed he did leap He sprang about four feet into the air, and far enough ahead ‘to have cleared a sword had one been there, which he verily bélieved to be the fact. “Good !” said the Grand Chancellor. ‘Now leap over the second one.” Z Jethro jumped quite'as high as before, and shook the whole building when he came down upon his big feet, while the spectators were shaking with laughter at the ridiculous performance. “ Bravol” ““Now the third sword.” Once more did he leap, after which he was rewarded With a hearty round of applause. 3 ; ** Allow me, inthe name of American Knighthood, to congratulate you on your successful accomplish- ment of this most trying and dangerous feat,”? said the Grand Chancellor, and it ever there was a poor r iY 11 devil who felt glad at having escaped from some great danger, Jethro Mullen was that one. But the mental and physical exertion made the perspiration start from every pore in his skin, and he felt so faint that the Guide led him’ before the Chan- cellor, and gave him a chair to sit upon. He never doubted for a moment that he had actually jumped hat three swords placed three feet apart, point up- wards. “Mr, Mullen, allow me to join in the congratulations and applause, and from it you can get an idea of how great a feat you have performed. Many, yery many, faint or fail to clear the swords, which, in that case, pierce their bodies, sometimes fatally. But that por- tion cf your initiation over with, we will now proceed with the other portions. Do you indulge in-intoxi- cating liquors?” asked the Chancellor, “No, sir.” ‘ ; “Do you never drink ??? *s Never.?? “ What, never??? “Well, hardly ever!’ ““T suppose you drink occasionally ?” “Only once in a while,”’ said Jethro, “He does not take it regular |? shouted the official. “Recorded !” on the gong. *““Whatis your favorite tipple, Mr. Mullen ??? ““T never drink anything but beer.”? : “Beer is his weakness |” “Recorded |”? , “Well, sir, has the love of beer become & fixed habit with you?” é hte “No, sir”? + . “He isn’t fixed |” “Recorded P?’ “Heve you ever been drunk 9? *N—no? | : ‘ewhat! say differently, sir.” * Well, I—I did'get a little drunk one night up in ps geveke Bounce’s room,’’ replied Jethro, hanging his ead. : ; : ** Will you renounce beer forever?” “Yes, sir.’? “He will shake it!”? “Recorded!” : ‘Are your teeth goou??? . ; “Yes, sir.” rs f “Open your mouth, so that the Grand Sufgeon can see them.” : Jethro opened a cavity in his head that was large enough for a barn door. ; “Wider! ‘said somebody, whom he thought was the Grand Surgeon, and that time he fairly astonished everybody. ; “Could you eat an army biscuit 7” “*T guess so.”? “Try him with one,’? said the Chancellor, “Our hard tack is all out, but here is a piece of our army beef, with>which we can test the strength of his jaws,’? said the Guide,at the same time dacs small, solid india rubber ball in Jethro’s open mout “Close on that, Mr. Mullen.?? Jethro did as directed and tried to chew it, produc- ing, of course, no further effect than that of creating a laugh, which became audible, . “No levity!” shouted the Chancellor. “tf 1 observe finy more of it I shall order some of you under arrest. Proceed with the ceremony,” t R This was said with great seeming severity, but the Chancellor was himself laughing so heartily that he eould scarcely speak, Te But Jethro kept chewing away upon that ball, think- ing apy ete) if that was army beef that he didn’t want any of it. ; “That will do, Remove the nutriment. He isa good grinder!” “Recorded!” : ; ye “Let the candidate become perpendicular,’ said the Chancellor, and Jethro stood up. * Proceed to further test his courage. spair; over the’ Path of Dificnity; up the Hill of Trouble, and if he goes bravely through, place him apes the field of the Cloth of Gold for further instruc- tions. st Jethro drew along breath as the guide took him by the arm and led him around the hall. On. one side there was a box made of boards, open at either end, and was about twenty feet long and two square. To one end of this he was taken, while the “knights?” gathered around to assist. —~ ‘You are now standing in front of the Cave of De- spair, through which you will be required to crawl upon your hands and knees, as some portions of the cave are very narrow. “You will undoubtedly get through in safety, although many have failed to do so. You may possibly encounter enemies, and be confused by strange and unearthly sounds, but fear not—a stout heart will take you through. | Around your neck [ will place this gordian knot, which will act as a charm and a guide te you in this dark Jabyrinth. Kneel.”” Jethro got down upon ali fours, The Guide then placed a noose around his neck, which was attached to along string that extended through the box, and was held by another knight, whose duty was to pull upon it gently, and. thus ‘assist him in working his way through thetunnel. , When all was ready they started him into the dread- ful “‘cave,” and as soon’ as he was Well out of sight they commenced to pound upon the box with clubs; to rattle chains upon it; to bang the golg, whirl a watchman’s rattle; beat drums; toot upon and French horns, and, in fact, to make as much of every conceivable noise as layin their power, and quite enough to frighten auy army mule. ) The inside of this box was filled with a little o: everything that would startie and confuse a person, and with fear and trembling the frightened victim The records of the Sécret Council of Ten Take him through the Cave of De- shhorns,
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— crept slowly along, expecting. tuat every future mo- ment would be his last, and wondering when he would get through. Well, he finaliy emerged with his hair standing on ena, and they led him without a word all around the hal, nearly crazing him with their unearthly sounds. Then the guide took him in hand again and stood him upon his Jeet. : “I congratulate youon your success. Come with me to the Path of Difficulty,” and he hurried him into it. This contrivance consisted of a lot of crooked sticks get on end, and in all sorts of tripping and bewilder- ing ways, fastened to some boards which lay upon the floor. *) Be very careful how you step, or you will fall upon great danger. Step high—higher! Now, then, slow- ly.?? Jethro lifted his feet very high, but in spite of this he was tripped up and fel! into this tangle, where he be- came completely demoralized, and so mixed up that he had to be assisted out. “Now, then, up the Hill of Trouble,” said the guide, seizing him by the arm and hurrying him to another part of the hall, This ** Hill of Trouble ’’ was an incline made of roll- ers, and, of course, the moment a person stepped upon it he fell down. It was so with Jethro Mullen, and there he was on all fours, trying to struggle up that hill of rollers, cutting aboutas comical a figure as ever was seen, while the guide urged him to renewed eflorts, and finally assisted him to the top, which was stationary. But the opposite side was just the same, although there wasn't the slightest difficulty in getting down, and the moment Jethro struck it, he went down upon the seat of his trousers, and shot to the bottom of that “hill”? as though he had been fired out of a cannon. “Now to the Field of the Cloth of Gold,” said the guide, helping him to regain his feet, “Oh, Lord! how much longer is it?’ asked Jethro, mournfully, : “Your troubles are nearly ended,’’ said the guide, leading him upasteportwo which brought him to the top ofa table, “*J-—I hope so.”” “You are now standing upon the royal mound, overlooking the Field of the Cloth of told, where all of your troubles will end, and where you will be dubbed @ knight by the Grand Chancellor, Do you wish to go to this beautiful fleld ?”” j * Yes;’? this with a little tone of hope. ; While this was going on a dozen or so of the "Knights? had arranged themselves in front of the table, where they held a large sheet of canvas to which stout handles were attached, and by which they held it ready to receive their yictim and give him a knight- ly tossing. * Your wisn shall be gratified. Gol’? saying which the Guide give him a push and he fell into the ¢anvas. Then they gave him a toss into the air which nearly *rightened the life out of him, and as he came down fc ey caught and gave him another toss, and continued tc to so for about five minutes, after which he was again taken in hand-and placed, panting and trem- bling, before the Grand Chancellor, “ Sir Guide, how did he stand the tests 7’? * Like a true knight.” t “Good! and as such he shall be dubbed. Kneel, plain Mullen!? And Jethro knelt, after which the Grand Chancellor took the Guide’s sword and strusk him lightly on the shoulder with it. ** Arise ennobled, Sir Jethro Mullen!’ At this there was a round of. applause, and Jethro began to regard himself as a hero, and ‘that his initia- tion was nearly finished, although it was far from being so. PE A “Sir Guide, place our new comrade at the Bath of Beauty, and there, at’the third sound of the gong, let the scales fall from his eyes, that he may see himself as otliers see him, Place on his head the crown of American Knighthood. Place in his hand the scroll of honor upon which so many noble names are written. Strike the tuneful lyre (not the organist) and let the sweets of music breathe upon the scene.”? And as they led Jethro away the organ began to play ‘* Molly, Put - the Kettle On,” The newly-made knight was crowned with a fool’s cap, and for the scroll of honor he was given a huge bologna sausage. a chair and hold the “scroll” extended at arm’s length. The Bath of Beauty consisted of a large round table, on which were about a dozen bottles and a large num- ber of drinking glasses. Around this stoed forty or fifty of the gang, each with a well filled glass in his wane and Jethro was facing them in his elevated po- sition. “Is he in due position?” asked the Grand. “ He is, worthy Grand,” replied the Guide. ‘At the third stroke upon the gong, let the scales. fall from his eyes, and may the beauty and solemnity. ofthe scene be forever 1mpressed upon Sir Jethro’s mind. Hark! One—Two—Three!” and as the gong- pounder gave it the third bang the blindfold was pulled from Jethro’s eyes. 4 The expression on any comic artist. Halloo, Jethro!’? cried a dozen merry voices. * Here's looking at you, old man!’ said others, as they drank. - ; Jethro waa utterly dazed and bewildered. He couldn’t for the life of him make out what 1t meant, or what they were all laughing at. * What have you got in your hand??? ~ Let’s see your crown, old man.” é Jethro looked at the big sausage, and seeing what it Was, he dropped it. Then he took off his “crown”? his face was a study worthy of uy , mention his flavor. Then he was made to stand up in |. TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. oe, and looked at that, and an expression of disgust began to steal over his face. “ Have a drink, Jethro?! asked Tommy Bounce. “Wal, by gracious!’’ he muttered, as he got down from the chair, “ How do you like it as far as you’ve got?” « Wal, I'll be goldarned!”’ and he glanced around the hall for some of the terrible ordeals through which he had passed, but they all had been removed to the store-room, “Det us drimk to the health of our newly-made brother knight,” said the Grand Chancellor, and they didn’t have to be asked a second time, nor did they have to work very hard to get him to join them. Ten or fifteen minutes were thus spent at this “‘ Bath of Beauty,” during ee laughter and good-fellow- ship was rampant, But Jethro began to suspect that he had been badly sold, when the Grand Chancellor again called the meeting to order and told the Guide to place Sir Jethro before him. “Sir Knight, from what you have seen you may perhaps suspect that you have beensold, But I hasten to assure you that it isnot so. At the ‘ Bath of Beau- ty’ in which you have just laved yourself after a dusty journey, you simply beheld the knights at refresh- ment after labor. The sausage which you held in your hand is the emblem of uncertainty; the fool’s-cap to show you that you are liable to be takenin. I will now proceed to give you the signs, grips, and pass- words that will enable you to work your way into an encampment of knights wherever you may be.’ CHAPTER VIII. JETHRO MULLEN was all attention as the Grand Commander announced that he was about to give him the signs and passwords of the Order of Ameri- can Knights, into which he had just been initiated. Tommy Bounce and the gang gathered around to see the finishing touches put upon the initiation over which they had enjoyed so much fun. As a general thing candidates saw that the whole business was a burlesque the moment the blindfold was removed. But Jethro took it so earnestly, evi- dently believing that it was all genuine and serious, that they lingered to the very last to see what new Sree! would occur. The Grand Commander began thus: “On approaching the outer guard of an encamp- ment of American Knights, you will place your mouth to the wicket and whisper the word ‘Jack? in his ear. He will reply to you with the word ‘Ass,’ and then ask you if you can eat your oats, and you say: ‘Let me in and see,’ and he will at once admit you, On entering the lodge-room you will at once repair to the center, facing the Grand Commander, and placing your thumb in your ear, thus, wag your head so as to imitate the movement of a jackass’ ears. You will then face about to the Vice Grand, and saute him in like manner, receiving from him and the Grand Com- mander «like salute in return, after which you can take your seat. There are also signs which we make use of in aspertaining if a person be a knight, and for other purposes. For instance, if you wish to find out whether a person is a Knight or not, raise your hand to your mouth in this way, as though lifting a glass of lager, and go through the pantomime of drinking it, when, if he be a Knight, he will instantly conduct you to the nearest saloon, and ‘ blow you off,’ or, in other words, order up the poison.” This was worse than Greek to Jethro, for as yet he had learned none or the slang terms so common with the students, and ‘ blowing off,’ or ordering “ poison,” seemed to him like very sanguinary business, as, in- deed, everything else had during the initiation. “Ifyou ever find yourself being bored by anybody, and wish to get rid of the torment, if you see a person passing whom you suspect may be a brother knight, all you have to do is to go through the motions of boring with an auger, when, if the stranger be a knight, he will at once fly to your rescue, by assuring ou that there is aman up'the street who is exceed- ngly anxious to see you at once on important busi, ness, and take you away from your trouble and into the nearest saloon, where you will at once ask him to You can practice this with your companions-in-arms until you perfect yourself, for they will be only too glad to show you how the old thing works in real life.” & We will—we will,” said the students, using gub- cellar tones of voices. “Ifyou happen to be in mixed company, and con- sider it impossible to give the haiting sign, you can suddenly say: ‘Fellows, what will you have to drink? and you may rest assured that every American knight will instantly respond.” 2 “ They will—they will!’ by the students, * Another method of ascertaining whether you are in good company or not, or whether there are any American knights present, is to place your thumb to your ear and flop your hand back and jorth as has al- ready been described to you. But, with the assistance of the brethren present, I will elucidate further, thus:” and the Grand Commander placed his hand in posi- tion, and gave it the required “flop,” when the gang responded by a vigorous ** Ba—a—ah!) which caused Jethro to start up and Jook around to make sure that the room was not full of jackasses. ** You will probably never find one of the other sex to be a knight, notwithstanding they wear the garter. However, your native modesty and gallantry will keep you from attempting to ascertain. Study well the noble character of ancient knights; especially read those knightly stories written by Sir Walter Scott, and though it may be utterly impossible for a person to do what he describes them as doing, still you had better read them—if you can’t possibly find anything better and more sensible, This finishes the instructions at this time. You will learn much as you go through college, and while perfecting yourself in knightly ac- complishments, “It now remains for you to receive the grip of American knighthood. Be kind enough to stand and extend your right kand.”? Jethro did so, nervously. “The first part of the grip consists in locking the little fingers thus; the shakers then turn the backs of their hands together in this way, after which they bring the balls of their thumbs together thus; then shake. Ifyou wish to make sure that he is a knight, just kick his shins in this way, and he will respond in the (to us) secret word:,‘ Bahl’ But if he should chance not to be a good knight, it may be all day with you. Fellows and companions-in-arms, he is one of us.? t A cheer greeted the announcement. “ Stick to him as long as he has a dollar!’? “ We will—we willl” * All hands shake and let the music swelll’’ The organ struck up and the fellows gathered around Jethro to give him the ‘‘grip ? and congratulate him on his elevation. Then they all sang: ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot,’ after which the meeting broke up and the students returned to their quarters. ~ But there was not much rest for Jethro Mullen that night, for in his dreams he was again being put through that dreadful course of sprouts, causing him to,start up in alarm as though the “Old Boy” was after him, But he had no idea that the whole thing was a bur- lesque, and the next morning he was found walung at the hall door, and when asked what he was doing there, he said he was obeying the orders given him by the Chancellor, and was waiting for the oflicer to come and drill him in the manual of arms, In fact it did seem as though he would not “tum- ble” if a house fell on him, and during the next few days the boys had heaps of 1un, putting him through all manner of exercises, such as fencing, boxing, and drilling, It was all sober earnest to him, But at the next meeting of the ‘‘ Knights,” which was, of course, attended by Jethro, he had a chance to see how the old thing worked, for there was another candidate to be put through. Jethro’s face was a study as he watched the initia- tion, and finally, at last, he really did ‘“‘tumble” to the racket, and saw how badly he had been fooled, It was a terrible let-down, , He was at first almost inclined to get mad, but thinking that the others had been put through in the same way, and finding so much fun in it, he concluded to make the best of it. : ' Taking it all together, the students never found a fellow with whom they could have so much fun as they pone with Jethro Mullen, and they never neglected m, treay On the other hand, Jethro was getting along with his “outside education?’ very well, lie thought, and was secretly congratulating himself that he was getting toughened up very fast, and would soon be as “‘fly ’” as any of them, a thing he eagerly sought for now. Of course Tommy Bounce had many secret con- versations with him, fer he was ‘‘coaching’? him all the while. And of course, he told him that he was do- ing first-rate, only, however, to set him up in some way for more fun. But instead of ripening much he still remained green enough to serve up for salad whenever Tommy or any of the gang took it into their heads to dish him out. And this ripening process seemed to require a great deal of beer, for he was bound to show them that he could drink as much of it as any of them, and in doing so he often got the worst of it, while the beer got the best of him, . He did not show up one morning, after being at one of their secret reunions in Tommy Bounce’s room, and thinking that, perhaps, he might be suffering with a “head,?? Tommy and Bill Gunn called on him on their way back from recitation, They found him sick, as they expected, and look- ing bad enough for a ‘terrible example’ for atem- | perance lecturer. He had a wet towel around his ead, and in every respect looked as though he was all broken up. ‘“‘Halloo, Jethro, how do. you feel??? ,asked Tommy, cheerfully, as he entered the room. Jethro groaned, and looked at them half reproach fully, but made no reply. “You look rather shaky this morning,’ added Bilt Gunn. ‘ What’s the matter with your callywoodles old man?”? : “My head,” said he, mournfully, “What's the matter with it?” “Oh, it aches so.” “ Well, I should think it would,” said Tommy. “J must baye drank a good deal last night,’? ‘well, I should say so.”? 3 “Tn fact, Tommy, I don’t remember anything thar happened after ten 0 clock.’ “That's deyilish lucky for- you.” “ How so?” ait Nava want to remember it ifI were you, eh, “No—no! Why. I never saw him so full before ii my life,” replied Bill, taking the wink: from Tommy, now ing that he had something that he wanted to. work. “What was it, Tommy ?’” 5 “What was it? What wasn’t it, rather 1” ‘“T don’t remember doing anything very bad. Dia I?” he asked. ; ‘Well that depends upon what you call bad. It you don't call it bad to shy beer bottles a4 a professor and——' ' 4 ’
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. ““What’s that you say, Tommy, @ professor??? de- manded Jethro, starting up, excitedly. “ That’s about the size of it, Jeth.” In Heayen’s name, what one?” ** Blobbs.”” ; that? Oh, what a fool I was—what a drunken idiot!’ “Guess you have got it about right.”” “Do you really think he will have me expelled, Tommy ?? ‘Well, itis hard to tell. He is a cranky old duffer. “ Blobbs ??? j| But if I were you I would write him a letter of +* Blobbs,’”? apology.’ <I? ~ “phunderation! Was he there—did he see me “Do you think that wonld do any good ?”? drunk??? “It might. Pitch it pretty strong in the pathetic ‘Drunk as a boiled owl,’’ “Full as a goat,’? put in Bill. * “«“Good heayens!?? «+ And you don’t remember it ?”” “Nota word of it.’ ***Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown,’ as some coye in Shakespeare says.’? —— ——— line—say it’s your first offense, and if he will only forgive you this once you will never be a naughty boy again. Write it at once, and I will see that it is placed where it will do the most good,” said Tommy. “Oh, thank you, I’ll do it,’ and taking up a pen, he wrote a most abject letter, as Tommy had directed, and handed it to him. 13 “Talk to him like a Dutch uncle, and I guess he won't fire you out.” “J hope not. What would my folks say?’ “Say it served you right, I suppose.” “ And so it would. But 1’m ever so much obliged to you, Tommy.’? “Oh, that’s allright. I always stick to my friends T’ll do anything I can for you, of course.” They shook hands and separated. Jethro at once began to study up @ speech to deliver to the snpposed angry and insulted professor, and had it all committed to memory by seven o’clock. Tommy Bounce and about a dozen of the fellows secreted themselyes behind a screen which stood ip the room, while Bill Gunn, got up so as to look strik- tn IH aaa A ih va ( a iia “Now, Mr. Mullen, strike oul,” said the Chancellor, and Jethro began to imitate the motions of a swimming frog as best he could, “How was it, Tommy?” F “Well, pretty warm, we all thought,’? said Tommy, end then he and Bill laughed. “I mean, how did it happen?” . “Oh, well, you somehow got it into your head that you could dance a breakdown on the table, and at- tempted it. Itzas a breakdown in some respects—a breakdown for the table and one or two ehairs. Well, this, of course, made a great row, and Blobbs over- heard it, so up he came to learn the cause of it, and as “he came into the dogr you threw a bottle at him, ands offered to bet ten tg#ne that you could knock the wart off his nose at ten @Aces.”’ ‘“‘Vfeaven and earth!’ groaned Jethro, while the two tormentors exchanged winks over the success of their “string.” P ‘And barely possible you don’t remember asking “nim to waltz with you??? *“No—no—no!? . “Or of trying to have him join you in a glass of beer??? : * Oh, good heavens!” “ Or of asking him how much it cost him to color his bugle?” $ : “Tommy, I don’t remember a thing of it. Is it pos- sible that I made such a confounded fool of myself?” “ Well, that’s about the measure of it,” * What did he say ??” 3 “He got out without saying much, further than that you would be likely to hear from him when you be- ame sober enough to comprehend the discipline of the college.” ; : “Oh, did he say that?, Boys, what do you think he will do?” he asked, anxiously. “Oh, he may do nothing worse pelled}”” replied Tommy, calmly. “Nothing worse! What cowid he do worse than than have you ex- # ““That’s all right. ‘Now lie low until you hear from ingly like Professor Blobbs, sat in a chair by the ta- me again,’? saying which the two rogues left him alone | ble. in his misery. “Jf he only forgives me I'll never drink another glass of beer in my life,”? mused Jethro. ‘It’s no use, I can’t be a tough like those other chaps, and I'll have to try to worry through college respectable, if I don’t get all the honors on account of it.” And there he was, squarely on another “ string’? by that prince of practical jokers, Tommy Bounce. There wienever appeared te be any trouble in getting him on for a circus at any time, but this one was entirely new. Tommy and Bill at once notified the gang to meet in his room, where he proceeded to give them a full ac- count of the racket, after which he read Jethro’s letter to Professor Blobbs. This of course produced much merriment, and then Tominy went on to explain how they would end the matter that evening, in Frank Rackaboy’s room, with the assistance of Bill Gunn and his make-up in imita- tion of Professor Blobbs. i ‘Then he yisited Jethro again, and found him pacing up and down his room in a state of great agitation. “Did you see him, Tommy??? “Yes. He read your letter, At first he was very in- dignant, but I talked to him for a fey minutes to smooth the matter over, and finally he seemed to weaken a little.’? “Did he?” “Yes, and he finally consented to see you this even- ing in No.12. He uses that room sometimes, you know, especially when he wants to ‘go for’ a poor devil. Now, be there at seven sharp, and tell him all about il, only don’t weaken and give any of us away. Say its was your own fault.” “ Yes—yes. I will. Pll do anything if he won’t ex- pel me,” said Jethro, eagerly. zi ' Punctually on time Jethro Mullen putin an appear ance. t “ Oh, professor, please forgive me this time,” he ex- claimed, throwing himself upon his knees before him most abjectly, while the fellows peeped from behine . the screen and from partly opened closet-doors, The picture was comical to the last degree, and had they not been well versed in “holding in,”’ they would undoubtedly have laughed right out. “You were drunk, sir,” thundered Bill, imitating the voice of the professor to a nicety. *Oh, yes, 1 know I was; but forgive me,” “Drunk, sir, breaking the rules of morality and the college at the same time, sir.’” : “Yes, I knuw it, professor; but if you will énly for- give me I will never do so again.” *“ How came you to be in Mr. Bounce’s room ?”” ““{—I went there to=to——” “To get drunk, sir, and to assault people. Have you ever been drunk before?” “N—n—no, sir.” ; “What! Don’t attempt to deceive me, sir. You have often been drunk, sir, and I know it, Do the others ever get drunk ?”? ‘No, sir; not as 1 ever saw.’? 3 ‘Well, perhaps they don’t hold enough to make them drunk, or you get too full to remember.”? “ But I won’t do it again, sir.” < ; “That Iam not sure of, Will youswé@ar off and sige. this pledge, if I do not expel you?” 4 “Oh, yes, sir, gladly,” said he, quickly. « “And keep out of the rooms of those bad young men?” - “ Yes, sir.” : * You can keep company with Mr. Gunn, for be is a nice young man, but beware of Mr. Bounce and the : ‘ ‘ 1
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., others, for they are bad and will lead you to your i sist that pledge,’ suid Bill, pointing to a piece of pape Jethro signed it without Knowing whether it was a deuth-warrant or a hash receipt. * Now go to your room, sir, and in order that I may know that you are keeping this pledge, salute me wheneyer we meet bereafter by seizing one of your _ 2ars in either hand and holding on to them until Lbow to you.) . ? “Oh, thank you, sir—thank you; and you shall see dow grate.ull am to you.” * We shall see, sir,’ said he, waving him away. Well. wasn’t there a laugh after Jethro got out of hearing? You bet there was, and they all gathered ground Bill Gunn and congratulated him upon the tlanneér in which he had conducted the thing. * Let’s see his pledge,’ said Tommy, and taking up the paper, le read aloud; tit freely acknowledge that I am the yeriest jackass im Yale College. ’ JerHRO MULLEN.” This, of course, produced another laugh. “ How is that for a pledge?’ “Good for the truth, at all events. .But the best thing will be when we see him saluting Professor Blobbs,”? and they laughed aud talked the matter over in their usual way until the night was nearly half fone, As for Jethro. he -went back to his room with a ‘much lighter heart than he had left it, thankful that he had escaped the great disgrace that threatened him, as he supposed, and thinkjng what a good friend Tom- my Bounce was to him. the next morning they all responded fo the chapel-. bell, so as to be on hand to see the fun, and. they didn’t haye to wait long, for presently Jethro came in front of Professor Blobbs, as he stood by the chapel- door to see who failed to respond to the pious bell. Seizing an ear in each hand, he faced the astonished professor, who looked at him wonderingly. ** Well, sir, what 1s the matter with you?’ he asked, after gazing at him a moinent, m *T remember it,” replied Jethro, “Remember what?” MD My pledge, sir.’’ “You are an ass, sir, or you are drunk, in which case a pledge would be very appropriate.” “Last night, you know,’ said Jethro, thinking that bay the occurrence had slipped his mind. “What of last night—were you Intoxicated ?’? ** No, sir, I—"” ; ‘“You are an idiot, [ think. Go in,’ he said, per- emptorily, and Jethro moved away, at the same time thinking how strangely the professor acted, But Tommy had told him he was cranky, and this might be one of his ‘‘cranks,’? so he let the matter drop, and attended to prayers, while the boys were having a good laugh. During the day the “ pledge’ was returned to him from some unknown source, and a more puzzled freshman was neyer seen in the world. CHAPTER IX. Tur next time Jethro Mullen met Proféssor Blobbs ne again saluted, as per agreement, by facing him and seizing his ears, and then waiting for the promised recognition, : Thiswas the third time that he had done this strange and utterly ticomprehensible caper, and the old man began to think that 1t was a studied insult, and he re- sented it. Those who read the preceding chapter will understand how the racket came about, as, also, how Tommy Bounce and Bill Gunn worked it out to make a fool of the freshman for about the fiftieth time. “ What do you meah, sir, by such conduct towards me ??' demanded the irate professor. “ Why, didn’t you tell me to?” asked Jethro, “No, sir; Lam quite certain that I never told you to make an ass of yourself.” “But you know when you sent for me: the other night, don’t you?’ ; “No, sir; I never sent for you.’’ ** What—not on account of that disgraceful affair in Mr. Bounce’s room ?” *T know nothing about it, sir.?? “ But do you not remember of sending for me to re- prove me, in No, 12, for throwing a bottle of beer at Owe x ‘Mullen, you are certainly crazy. What under ‘ Tleaven are you talking about?’ asked Professor Blobbs, taking a closer look at him, “You don’t kuow uothing about it—about that , pledge you made me sign ?** “Nothing of the kind, sir, nothing. out of your head.” “Well, I guess [-am,’? mused Jethro, for now he was as much astonished as the professor was. Tt even got ahead of the ‘pledge,’ which the boys had re- surned to him, as will be rermembered, , What did if mean? ‘ i The professor thought he knew, and charged the whole aslajr to some certain mischievous youths, But he told Jethro not So make a fool of himself by holding his®2ars any more. g oon This puzzled the freshman very much, and the next opportunity he had’he interviewed Tommy Bounce re- garding it. * What do you suppose .He actually says he never sent for me abont that ‘drunken atfai me to sign a pledge, and don't know what 1 mean when I give him the very salute he told me to give him, to assure him that I remembered my pledge.” ‘Gone clean back on you, eh??? asked Tommy. “ Well, it somehow seems s0,’” Professor Blobbs was dreadfully in earnest in regard to that ‘ salute,’ but how to account for it he couldn’t for the life of him tell. 4 ? “I guess I’m off my nut somehow,’ he mused, a8 he seated himself in his room. ‘IJ hayen’t mind enough to stand a college education, and I shall never be a lawyer. But to think of being expelled—onh! what will my folks say? But I guess they'll heave me ont this time and no mistake, so I may as well commence to pack up my dnds,?? i At that moment Tommy Bounce knocked and en- tered the room, haying caljed on lus way back from recitation. t “Oh, Tommy, what does 1t mean?’ he asked, the moment he saw his supposed friend, i “Hang me if I know, Jeth. There 1s 4 reat mys- tery about the whole affair,?’ replied Tominy, looking serious. $ “They’lifire me out this time sure.’’ “Jam affaid so.” ‘ “What do you advise me to do ?? ; é “Why, go to old *Présy 7and tell him the whele af. fair,ffrom ‘first to last, taking care of your friends, of -
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. 1G course, not to give them away, and ask him for a solu- tion to the mystery.’? ‘Yes, that’s the only way,”? mused Jethro, “But don’t say how you came to get full. Say you had a toothache, and in attempting to quiet it with some brandy some of it slipped down your throat and downed vou. See??? “All right; Dll do the best I can.” “Say you was in your own room; not in mine.” **1’ll make the best story I can, Tommy.” And with this understanding they shook hands and parted, Tommy feeling a trifle uneasy himself, Jethro was greatly cast down whken he went before the’ college president, who had by this time heard of his conduct from Professor Blobbs, who, however, im- parted his suspicions that the other members of the class were more. to blame than the green Yermonter was. Jethro attempted to concoct a good story when brought up before the austere president, for the pur- pose of shielding his friends. But the old man detect- ed the effort, and brought him up with a round turn, demanding the truth of. him (pretending to haye learned it from some other source), when the poor devil weakened, and told the whole story just as it was. Then the president was puzzled, and sent for Pro- fessor Blobbs for him to explain his part of the affair. But when he denied all knowledge of the business from first to last until Jethro began to “ salute?’ him, pets looked eyen more mysterious and cloudy than before. ; “Now, sir, on pain of instant expulsion, tell me the truth about this,” said the president. : “Well, sir, [ sincerely thought it was Professor Blobbs, and if it was not, it was somebody else who looked and dressed just like him,” replied Jethro, sorrowfully. : The teachers exchanged glances. “7 wouldn’t insult anybody in the world, but I cer- tainly thought I was doing just as he told me to do,” and he fairly whimpered, ‘‘ Mullen, your story will have to stand until we can prove or disprove it. Return to your studies, and keep clear of the students you have mentioned until we can look into the matter, But I strongly suspect that you have been most outrageously duped and hazed by somebody. Go.”? i / Jethro went, feeling a trifle better. | * Professor Biobbs, there is mischief here that must be found and rooted out,”’ said the president. “1 feel certain of it, sir.” “J am told that both Bounce and Gunn were ex- pelled from a school kept by Mr. Slamjand J think they will bear a deal of watching here, as well as a dozen others with whom they associate. Keep a close bye on them, and IJ will set a secrét watch that will be sure to catch the rogues.” : “T hope so, sir.?? : “It must be done for the credit of our college,” and then. after Blobbs had gone, he asked himself, *‘ Who can it be who looks so homely and so like Blobbs as to be able to personate him so artfully 7? Tommy Bounce and the gang was waiting near at _ hand so as to intercept Jethro when he came from the president’s house, “what did he say ?? was the general inquiry, “Oh, Lord, boys, don’t ask me,” replied Jethro, “You didn’t give us away, did you?” asked Tommy, acting as spokesman for the party, “No, not exactly, but I’ll tell you what, he frighten- ed me into telling all I knew.” ‘ “What! Did you give us away?” “Well, I tried to work the toothache racket on his nibs, but he wouldn’t have it, He said that he had been informed all about it, and if I didn’t tell him the truth he would fire me out of the college,” replied Jethro, sadly. “ And you weakened ?”? “What could I do?” “Told all about it 2” ““What could I do ?? *“And 60 the wholé thin “But he said he would i * Ah, that was bluff.” “aft? “Work—on a duffer,” sneered Mark Harmer. “Well, what did he say? asked Tommy, after the doys had expended their expressions, * He said he suspected that I was——” “A d—d fool?” asked Rackaboy. “Yes,” replied Jethro, honestly. The fellows laughed, and. speaking among them- selves, said the old man had got him down pretty fine. “Well, what else did he say ?? asked Tommy. “Said he was going to set a watch on you,?? “Who ?” asked half a dozen, “Why, the bad ttudents,” replied Jethro, “Oh? this by all hands, indicating that it wasn’t 42 is out?! asked Tommy. re me out,’? em. “That lets us ort,” said Tommy, “Of course.’? “ Always;” and they all Jaughed. “Only going to watch the vad boys, eh? Well, he must mean those sophomores,” said Bill Gunn, “Of course,’’ was the general chime, : “Jethro, I am afraid you will neyer make a great lawyer,” said Tommy Bounce. “T am afraid not, too, if things go on this way.” “Not even a great li—ar,” added Smally. “Say, fellows, we must commence to hedge,” sug- gested Tommy, speaking aside to those who stood ‘ him. z Rita 1 “That's 90. t “Old ‘Presy ’ evidently tumbles to the racket.” “Tt looks like 1f,?? * And so does Blobhs.’? ~ a “ That's s0.’? ‘ +; ures, “Yellows, J am sorry to announce it, but it looks as though we had either got to lay exceedingly low fora few weeks, or else come right down to the point of be- having ourselves,’”’ said Tommy Bounce, with mock gravity. ‘“ Alas, it does look that way.” “Look here, Jethro, if you value your life at a pin’s worth, beware how you mention our names hereafter. You have given us away, and actually made it seem to * Presy’ that we are bad students,” said Tommy, whereat they all groaned, “But didn’t he threaten to expel me??? ‘“ Whatis that? I say fellows, we will have to initi- ate him into the ancient order of Damon and Pytiias before he fairly understands his duties as an American student,” said Tommy, turning to'the gang. “That's so.” j eee ee knighthoodisn’t strong enough for him, is it ?”” ‘“No—no !? they all cried, “Yes, it is. I have got all I want,’ said Jethro, earnestly, starting to go. : “Yes, but you have given us more than we want. You must be initiated into a more sof#mn order,’ “Oh, Lord !” groaned Jethro, thinking of what he had already been through, CHAPTER X. ArrerR making the announcement that: Jethro Mul- Jen was still too fresh, and that he would haye to be initiated into that most solemn of all known orders, the ancient order of Damon and Pythids, before he could be trusted by the college gang, Tommy Bounce and his friends left Jethro to his own reflections. As for Jethro, he didn’t want any. He had received all he wanted while being initiated into the order of American Knights, and he’ felt that what he learned therein ought to be enough to satisfy any ordinary am- bition, and so he felt bad because his friends blamed him for what he had done against them while before the president of the Yale College for examination in relation to his conduct to Professor Blobbs, As for Tommy Bounce and the gang, of which he was the acknowledged captain, they came suddenly to the conelusion that they had better lay very low for a few weeks, and turn their fun, if they had any, into entirely new channels, © F They had many sober meetings upon the matter, and finally it was agreed to drop Jethro for awhile and pay attention to the many out-door sports which now were in full season. Among [those sports were basé-ball, foot-ball, and skating, and, of course, dozens of students belonging to the different classes were engaged in these pastimes when their studies did not call for them in their own or the class-rooms. And Tommy Bounce introduced a new game called “HWoeky ”? or ‘‘Shinny,’?? which the students took to very generally. It is the same thing that hundreds and thousands of my readers have played on the ice, although it is often played on an open field. Well, Jethro being left severely to himself by the gang, began to feel lonesome, for, while they were out in the fields or on the ice, he was ‘at home poring over his books. _ ; Finally he got into the habit of walking out to see the games, and Seeds Tommy and his friends engaged in a game of foot-ball, he at once became interested in it, and told Tommy, the captam of one team, that he would dearly like to have a chance at the ball, ‘You would, eh?’ said Tommy. “Of courset would,” . “No, sir; no man can ever join a foot-ball team until he has joined the ancient order of Damon and Pythias. Tf you wish to join that, we will let you have a few kicks at it, just to see how you like 1t.”” ‘““What’s that got to do with foot-ball?”? he asked, curiously. \ ; “Why, everything. A fellow never becomes a, * kick- er? until he joins that order, ¢h, lads ?’’ he asked, turn- ing to some of the gang who stood around, resting from their last game, “You are right they don’t.?? “Tsay, Jethro, did you ever kick foot-ball 2?” ““No; but it’s easy enough,” replied he, grinning confidently. ‘Well, now, how high do you think you can kick it, taking it this way for a regular ‘camp,’ hey ?”* “I don’t know, Tommy, but it seems to me I could raise it about half a mile.’ A loud laugh greeted this remark. “Let him try it.” . “ Yes—ves; let’s see how much of a kicker he is be- fore we initiate him into the order of Damon and Pythias, suggested Harmer, “Certainly—by all means.’? ‘All right. Go ahead, Jethro,” replied Tommy, handing him the foot-ball. Jethro took it, while a big grin overspread his: feat- He handled it admiringly for a moment, and then grinned even more confidently, as though think- | ing how he would astonish them. Then, he looked upwards, as though calculating about how high he could kick it without.knocking down any stars. ‘“Hold on,?? said Bill Digby. “What is it??? “Wait a moment, Jeth. Will you agree to pay for the ball if you break it, or kick it so far away that we cannot find it again ??? i “Ho—ho, haw! Of course I will,” said he; “ All right, then, go ahead.” “Stand back, fellows, and give him-a fair chance,” and with mock anxiety they al! got out of the way. Jethro walked around a few steps to get himself in \ ‘Tommy. a good position, all the while eit the foot-ball ne» tween his two hands, ready to kick it. “Now, then !” suggested Tommy, Well, it was ‘‘ now, then.” * Jethro Mullen was determined on kicking that bal& higher than it had ever been kicked before, and there- ‘by win immortality for himself at a single stroke. And concentrating all his strength in his right jeg-, he let it go; but, alas ! he failed to hit the ball, and thee momentum of his kick was so great that it threw hins. off of his other foot, and caused him to turn a com~ plete somersault and Jand in a very demoralized con dition upon the seat of his bursted trousers, three or four feet from where he had stood. A terrific grunt from lim only, mingled with a wilcd. roar of Jaughter from the students. And they kept on laughing, for a more comical looking specimen of astonished humanity was never~ seen. He couldn’t see the ball from where he sat, and he» glanced around at the laughing crowd with a look of wild inquiry on his face. ‘““Wh—wwhere did she go ?”” he finally stammered, and. this only renewed the laughter; in fact, they couldn't: speak for laughing. Then he struggled to his feet, and felt of his wounds. z Shee is ity’ he asked again, and Tommy pointed 0 it. “Didn't she go??? “*No; the ball kicked you.”? grate by gosh—all—darn |? he muttered, lovkings at it. . Re “You went and the ban didn’t.” ‘Jerusalem ! I should say so. How did it happer., any, way?? é s “You didn’t hit the ball,” ‘ “Waal, but who hit me?? ret: *eYou hit:yourself.’? “No, Vl be hanged if I did.” “The ground hit you, Jethro, Try it- again,” said “Of course I will. Why, Tommy, I can kick that consarned thing right out of sight,” said he, limping: to where it lay. He was as mad as a wet cat by this time, and with all the vim he had left, he once more attempted to as- tonish the students; who were haying such a hearty’ laugh at his exploit. * Taking the ball as before, he set hic teeth *together,, and went for it. This time he hit it on the side, send ing it a rod or so away, but. sending his cowhide shoe: after it, high up into the air, it having slipped o#f withy his tremendous effort. : This, of course, produced another laugh, although w few of them applauded. » i : Jethro looked bewildered and silly. “Good boy 1? “Great kick 1” ‘Wonderful athlefic feat !?? “ Big thing |? : 5 “Yes,” added Bill Gunn; “any man that can kick m Ses that size up into the air is not much of slouch. . f ‘Goldarn the luck anyhow,” muttered Jethro, hok- bling away to recover his shoe, » ‘*Lethim play a game with us,” suggested seyeray. and it was quickly agreed to. ‘ “Tl take him,”? said Tommy, 5 “Allright. Come, Jethro, we are going to give yors : a chance at a regular game.” “Well, I'll bet if I get one fair kick at the goldarne® thing, I’ll fix it,” muttered he, tying up his big shoe. *Come along, then,’’ said teams again took their places for +h. purpose of con- tinuing the game, and giving smbitions Jethro chance to distinuish himself. { Everything was soon in readiness. } “Now, Jethro,” said Tommy, aside to him, whatr you want is to rush rightin when the ball is being; kicked over toward our goal, aud kick it back agains toward theirs. See?” 4 ** Oh, yes, I understand.’ “Don’t let the other team frighten you, for every~ thing depends upon the rushi,”? “ All right, you'll see me,’? The game commenced, and they did see him. They saw him rushing wildly into the contest, but kicking: the ball as often the wrong as the righy way, but often- er not hitting it at all, and tumbling down himeelf only to be stepped on and kicked, Finally they got him into.the rush at the finish, anda made him so sick of foot-ball in about ten seconds that he never wanted to play the game again. They hit him with the ball; they kicked his. shins: they banged. his hat over his eyes, and in other ways: made it so warm for him that a linen duster would have been a luxury second only to being well upho stered in his tender parts, + ‘*Good boy!) said Tommy, applauding him. ‘ Youa did splendidly, Jethro, and we haye beaten them.” “Oh, we have, hey ?? he asked, sadly. “To be sure we have. You are a great kicker, etx. fellows ?”” 7 ' “ Wonderful,’ said they all; and at the same time: they were laughing hard enough to split themselves, “Where's your doctor??? “Our what?” “Doctor. You don’t, pretend to say that you plapy a game of this kind without having a doctor on the grounds, do you?’ |, “Nonsense, What's the matter with you?? askee Tommy. . ; ’ “J thought this was a game of foot-ball 7? “So 1t- Why?” ; i “ Waal, I guess the most of ‘em mistook me forthe ball,’ ‘said he, sorrowfully. ‘Ridge! Come on for another gama,” ‘ aft ’ ‘ommy, and the tywea - e t
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16 af nos thank you, I guess I’ve got all the foot-ball 1 yvant. “What! Going to shake us? Why, everybody gets kicked more or less in this game.?? : ‘* Waal, maybe you fellows are used to it, or maybe - you like it, and think it fun, but I don’t; ’ve got all I “want,’? and he started to limp away. “Why, you wanted to get in.” “ves, 1 know I did, but now I want to get out. -Semehow or other it don’t seem to agree with me,” and he limped away toward the college, sick in one -sense and cured in another, ‘‘Jt's no use,”? he mused, after reaching his room, ~“\ was never cut out to be like those fellows. I’m as , @reen as grass, and nothing they can ever do for me ~ will make me any riper. Something is sure to happen HOTT Span ian CT (Wnt = — — — | | Ini TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. One thing, however, bothered him; he had no boat, and as they were all owned by the various students, he saw no opportunity offered for ever distinguishing himself in that way. Tommy Bounce owned a beautiful single scull, one of the best in New Haven, and, as with other kinds of athletic exercises, he was rather @ bad man to beat when seated in his saucy little craft. But he seldom rowed whenever there was any other sport to be had, and sometimes he would lend it to fellows who wanted to develop their muscles with the ** spoons.’” As luck would have it, he met Jethro down by the river one day while his enthusiasm was still at the boiling point, although Tommy never suspected that my \ INA LOOT bys Vigesn- 9G ow | Neg : a | l @ it Wht 2 \ \~ es AN if AS = bf WEEN EO i r WW SF} WN $ > \\\ SZ \ Vs s +: A A -- Z ii ih N \ SS Will PAIN IT t SEL = f ‘ S HE i ft, ! iN Ie er ay) AY £4 ¢ rn . S 5 n ut : ‘} WO uil Nn y \\ a \ | S i S\ | Nn f HK AU TASS \ i Nill : A OS |, creer ta { os eT ee SS. Dima = = | | ¢o me it l attempt to do anything that other fellows do, sao 1 guess the best.thing for me to do is to stick right ¢o study, and get through witn my college life as :Speedily as possible.” Even while he mused thus the teams of foot-ball- eplayers were laughing over the experience he had en- poyed, and voting him to be a whole magazine of fun. If was two or three days before he again ventured <out fo see any of the athletic games, and not until his umps, and bruises had got well did he believe for a moment that there was pleasure in even witnessing the sports without attempting to share them. But he had always been a hard-working fellow, and he now felt the need of physical exercise very much. So be patronized the gymnasium, and got what satis- faction he could out of its apparatus. Here he met one of the teachers one day, who was also taking his ‘constitutional 7 in the same way, and maturally enough Jethro sounded him for advice. “T would suggest that rowing would be a good; thing for a person of your physical proportions,” said he teacher. ‘t Have you ever tried it??? ¥ * Never was in a boat in my life.”” * Well, I would adyise you to try it,”’ This set him to thinking, and so he would go down o the river to see the students take their exercise in sshell-boats, i It was a new revelation to him. He had never seen «one of those graceful little boats before—so long and «sharp and narrow, and it amazed him to see with «what velocity they could be pulled through the water; gor at that time some of the best scullers in the coun- try were to be found among the students of Yale -Dollege. But after watching them for some time, he finally -. «soncluded that with his great strength he could out- oy the best of them, for he had a very good opinion of lis physical strength. : a" LTE es ae ae freshman would ever think of rowing in a shell, ‘** Halloo, Jeth! How do you feel 2’ “Oh, all right.’ , ‘“What are you doing down here??? * Seeing ’em row,” c “Great sport, Jethro. Wait a few minutes and you will see me take a turn or two. If any of the lads come while Iam out tell them to wait nntil I take my ‘constitutional.’ ” “Qertainly;? and so he accompanied him to his boat-house, where he stripped, took his boat down to he float, and was soon feathering the graceful oars and darting away. “Oh, I'd give ali my old boots if I was only such a chap as that Tommy Bounce is,” he mused, as he watched him recede, ‘tHe is at home anywhere. I never saw such a chap. He can dojanything.” He watched the young athlete for some time, all the while believing that he could pull the boat at least twice as fast as he did, and wishing that he could get a chance to try. While Tommy was out five or six of his particular pang came to the boat-house, and there awaited for § return. “Tommy,” said Jethro, as he drew up alongide of the float and skillfully lapped the out-rigger upon it so as to errabje him to get out, “1 think I can beat you pulling that boat.’ ‘Oh, you do, hey?” said Tommy, at the same time winking to his friends. : , “Of course I do.” * Did you ever Tow @ shell??* “No; but I can.” “Ever rowed at all?” ’ “T was out last night with another student rowing ina skit”? : « On a different thing. But would you iike te ry : “Gracious! wouldn’t I, though 2? “Allright, Take off your coat, and hang it up there in the boat-house.’” Jethro flew to obey. f ‘* By gosh, I’ll just make that boat fly,’ he muttered; and before he had returned to the float Tommy Bounce rie assured the fellows that they would now see some un. Jethro returned in his shirt-sleeves, looking delight- ed, as he really was, at having a chance to spread him- self in one of those sharp little boats, and show tho ~ students what he could do with a pair of ‘t spoons.” “You want to be careful now, old man,” said Tom: ‘LAMAN ——S==—-_— | | UTTUTaner even COvnPLOTFTT TH PnOvoesg TUOVCTTTET RST anc i es | i | i i He finully emerged with his hair standing on end, and they led him around the hall, nearly crazing him with their unearthly sounds ‘ “ How ??? ait “ Why, about getting into the boat,” yikes “Oh, ‘3 all right,”’ replied Jethro, confidently, “Can you swim ?”? asked Mark Harmer. + j “Yes, Why?” ‘ ’ “Oh, nothing, only afefow ought to know how if he is going on the water.” “You fellows think I’m awful green, don’t yout Any man that can’t row alittle boat like that ought to be ashamed,”? “Don’t be so confident, Jeth, for it is no fool ofa job to manage one of them. But step in, and I’ll hold the out-rigger.” “ All right.” and he stepped in carefully. “Now, then, look sharp. Get balanced. Here are your sculls. Haye ’em all ready, and ship the mo- ment I let you go.” “Oh, you aré chaffing me, Tommy, Let her go, and I'll show you something.” ais Tommy did let. her go, and Jethro did show them something. He showed them how quickly @ chap can turn over in a shell boat and disappear from view ne- neath the water, for the moment Tommy let go of the out-rigger, he toppled over and went down to catch & crab or something. ; He arose to the surface, puffing and snorting, just im time to hear the second yell of laughter from the spec- tators on the float, while three or four boatmen near by pulled to the rescue, and righted the shell before it could fill and sink. ’ “Wuhiat the deuce are you doing down there? de- munded Tommy, a5 soon as Jethro got his noze above the water, S q “]—J—Lord, how. cold the water is!’ said Jethro, between his chattering teeth : “Swim up here to the float, and we will pull you out,’”? ,
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TOMMY BOUNCE; Jr., IN COLLEGE, a He did so, and in a moment was safely landed; but oh! how wet and cold! “I told you to be careful,” said Tommy. “ W—w—well, w—w—wasn’t 1?” “Yes—careful to tip over and go to the bottom. tho \ght you could row a a shell?” “ [—] thought I could, but——” * But you find you can’t.?, — “JJ didn’t have a chance to try, T—T-—-Tommy,” said he, sadly. * Yes you did.” What made it tip over so easy ?”? Why, don’t you see how narrow it is? When a fellow gets into one of those he has to part his hair in the center, and have the same number of pennies in each pocket.” I ‘What have I done, sir??? ‘* You know it all—I only know a part; but beware of your future behavior,” “Yes, sir.?? i “ And attend closer to your studies, sir.” “Yes, sir.” “And beware how you trifle with the rules of the college, sir.” - “Yes, sir’? : ‘Especially in relation to being out at night, sir.” “Yes, sir.” z “And taking beer into your room, sir.” s“Yes; sir.?? _ “ And haying a company of students there carous- ing, sir,” L “Yes, sir.”? oy ‘i . | fac Wt i 17 “TY don’t know. Guess not, for, in spite of all the rackets we have stood him up for, he still believes us _ to be his friends.” ‘““Which, of course, we are.’” ‘why, cert.?? “Well, I guess we'll take the screws off of Jethro for the presént. We have squeezed fun enough out of him for awhile.” “That's so; but what shall we do for healthy amuse- ment? Find some other chap??? “Not just yet. Let us lay low for awhile, and geta reputation for being studious.”? “ Great idea; but what a change |” “You are right it is.”? “Why, our chums won’t believe it.” “And perhaps won’t even know us on account ef ee 4 i i LEZ Lic seh “ Oh, professor, please forgive me this time!” he exclaimed, throwing himself upon his knees before him most alyectly. Oh, why didn’t you tell me that?” “Because Lthe2zht you knew all about it. g@et your coat on.” “He ought to be put through a wringing machine first,”’ suggested Bill Gunn, langhing. - The boat was finally secured and housed, after which they took Jethro to the nearest saloon for the purpose of @3-sing some hot stuff inte him to prevent him from catchins cold. Meanwhile, the poor devil's teeth were playing a lively old tune; in fact, playing it so fast that he was in danger of making hash of his cold tongue. But they finally got a few drinks into him, and got him warmed outside before a hot stove after which they finished their chas” and laughing. And what fun they had, and how full of “warmth” they got him before he was pronounced out of danger and allowed to go home! ‘And this effectually cured him of another ambition, and he made up his mind neyer to try anything of the kind again, ; ‘Not a durned thing more in mine,” said he, decid- ay. ‘I’m a natural fool, and the best thing I can do sto get made into a lawyer as soon as possible, and wet back to Vermont.’’ i: ~ After this he was known as the ‘‘Diving Sculler,”? and probably the name sticks to him to this day. Come, A CHAPTER XI. “Ty you wish to be expelled from college, Mr. + Bounce?” This was from the president of Yale College. **No, sir”? That from our hero. “Well, ef2, if you are caught at any more of your misvhief that will be your fate; so please not for- getit? | ate “ And the tricks you play on Mr. Mullen, sir.” “Yes, sir, Tommy said this very respectfully, but what he thought was another thing. © “Remember, sir.’ “Yes, sir’? and with this he left the august pres- ence. : As stated some chapters back, the president of the college had placed a detective on Tommy’s track, and, although he could only find out a porticn of his |; pranks, yet he was strongly suspected of others, and consequently summoned before the president for warning. Bill Gunn also received a warning, but they failed to find out who it was that personated Professor Blobbs so successfully. “Why should he suspect us, I wonder’ asked Tom- my, after they had talked the matter over. ““Goodness only knows. The idea of suspecting that we would be guilty of anything naughty! Why, it’s perfectly absurd.’ “Insulting, in fact.?? “Highly so,” ‘“‘T have half a mind to leave myself.” 1a have I.?? SF 4 hey never suspected us of doing anything naught; at Mr, Slam’s school.?? one eaters “No. The old man only fired us out because we had learned all he kpew.’” .\ “That's all. Never suspected us of doing anything crooked,” ‘Certainly not !’) and, after looking at each otheras honest as a pair of sheep, they burst out laughing. “That's all right.’ said Tommy; ‘* but who do you Suppose has been giving us away?” “J would like to know the wretch. .But it is very evident that somebody Iras,?? ‘ “ Wonder if it was Jethro?” the change. That would be too bad. I say, don’t let a get so good all of a sudden; take a little every ay. : “All right. Ul take a little beer to-day. Come along,” and away they went, laughing. That day both of them learned a perfect lesson, for f& wonder, and Professor Blobbs, to whom they re- cited, complimented them upon the uncommon achievement. But when night came they felt lonesome. *Let’s buy a dog, Tosmy,”’ suggested Bill Gunn, as they sat alone in his room. ‘What's the use? If we are going to referm so much, a dog would actually become homesick in our company,” said Tommy. Z *) wish we did have a dog. He would be lots of company; besides, I can have lots of fun with him.” “ Catching rats or fighting? — ‘*Oh, we would attend strictly to his education, and bring him up a very proper dog. He should have ell the canine accomplishments; besides, 1 would teach him to talk.” Z “Talk ! I guess 1t would be dog-erel.’? ‘“‘No. ll be dog-goned if 1t would.” “Would you teach him rehgious dog-mas =” “No. I'd Jet him forget all he ever knew about his dog-ma, and consider himself as belonging to a su- perior breed.” . “That would be very dog-matic.” : “On the contrary, I think it would be very kind of me to make a dog star of him. I might be elected an honorary member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.’? : : “ Well, let’s buy a dorg. What breed ?”? “Black and tan.’? } 7 “ Allright. Own him together ?? BY, “Yes; you own sie blaok, and I wil own the tan, How’s that? ‘ ,
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13 TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. we : i sss oss... m0 ‘Good; if the dog will agree to it.” *©Oh, he won’t mind it.” . “But will he mind us??? “Of course he will.” “But suppose you educate the tan bark part higher than I do the black? or suppose my part is trained to fight, catch rats, and raise the devil generally, will it not be apt to lead your part into temptation ?”” “ Well, come to think of it, I guess I had better su- perintend the education of his nibs. Pll teach him yventriloquism,?? “that’s it; I heard of a ventriloquist once who used to haye lots of fun with a dog, whose poetic name was Bones,”” E “Of course. I’m surejwe can have bushels of fun with one. But, of course, we shall have to keep him hidden and only take him out nights for an airing, for if he should be discovered, he might get expelled after the manner of Mary’s little lamb.” “Tn which case his mutton would be cooked, which wouldn’t be the proper caper satice.”” “Come in.” This was in response to the regulation knock upoin the door of their room, and open came the doorand n came Bill Digby and Mark Harmer. “ Halloo, toughs! Squatavo,as we sayin France. Devilish glad to see you. Bill and I were just saying how lonesome we were since receiving our ‘ warn- ings,’ and were talking about buying a dog to keep us company,” said Tommy. Z “Well, that would be a good change, for we have been using a calf long enough to have our fun with,” sald Digby, laughing, i “That’s'so, but we are going to drop Jethro for the present.” “T euess it’s about time.’? : “Give him a chance to let his skin get grown over and patched up,” said Harmer. “Well, lads, we have squeezed a lof of juicy fun out ef him since the day he struck thiS festive old col- iege,”? said Bill Gunn. - “You are saying it now.” ‘JT wish I had a dog,” said Digby. ‘ English stu- dents are allowed to have them, and why should not American ?”? “ English fellows have a great many privileges which we do not have. But we can play poker in seven languages, which they cannot do, even in their mother tongue,” —. “That's so; Alma Mate will let us poker.” ““Welk suppose we proceed to enjoy that inestima- ble privilege. Got a pack of cards, Tommy?’ asked Mark Harmer, “Why, cert. Do you think I would attempt to go through a college course without learning all of the necessary text books?” asked ‘tommy, taking a pack of cards from a table-drawer. Amida, merry laugh the four of them took seats ground @ table, and began a game of cards, one cent ante, a “Here, Digby, come up with your relation,” said Tommy. ; é “My what?” “Your poor relation—your ante.” “Oh, Well, there’s the lady; she’s the goddess of liberty,” said he, producing acent. * But you needn’t be so cents. ational about it.” { “You are a great deal too smart,” “No; buf Dll deal smart next time.?” “These puns create deallay,” said Harmer. * And they are deal-atorious.’? “Af all events, they are not deai-1icious.” suggested Tommy Bounce. . : Oh, give us a rest.” “No, give us luck.”’ said Digby. “Yes, ‘pot’ luck,’? replied Tommy, taking the money. “You are a pot-luckier man than Iam, Tommy.” “Trot out your relation.’’ : * Yes, and the next fellow that makes a pun loses his deal.’? ty “ Yes, yes—a pun upon any subject.’ “Give me two cards.” ; »" Give me one,?? and Digby dealt them to the * beg- ‘ars.?? Well, they kept. up this play and their -chafting and punning until ten o’clock, when all lights were re- quired to be out, after which they pinned a blanket over the window and stutfed the key-hole full of paper, so that no prying janitor or professor could catcli'a ray of the forbidden hght, and they continued playing until nearly midnight, occasionally moistening the amusement with beer, of which Tommy always hada. bottled supply hidden away in an old trunk, And this night passed as dozens of others had passed, the fellows having their fun on * the strict Q.'T.,;” and never getting found out. : In a day or two afterwards Tommy Bounce bought a fine black and tan, and managed to smugele him into his room without being seen by the watchful jan- itor who had charge of that building. ; It was a beauty; smart as a steel trap, and the boys were greatly pleased with him, and the dog was also to be congratulated on various points of personal ad- vantage which he had gained by being bought, for he got'into decidedly cosy quarters, where he was petted ‘and given all he could eat, which was more good luck than had ever fallen to his lot since his bark was saunclhied on the tide of life. ee “What shall we call him, Bill?) asked Tommy, after they had succeeded in convincing the dog that they were his friends, i . “Why, call him by his name, of course; the name his former owner christened him.’ F ‘Not much. He is too pretty. I wouldn’t,call a homely cur ‘Sprat.’~ It 1s a terrible handicap for an ambitions canine who wants to move in good society.” “ Well, let’s call him * Nonesuch,’ and then if any of i ‘ > ‘ uw) the faculty ask us if we have a dog, we can place our hands en our. manly bosoms and swear that we have ‘none such’ in our room.” “Rather more ingenious than poetic, Billy. Suppose we call him Sly 2”? : “ All right, and then we will keep Sly.”” And so it was agreed. : Bill Gunn at once set himself at work training the dog, and in a few days had him so that he would do several very pretty tricks, for this was just the busi- ness that he was partial to. He practiced his ventriloquism with him until he make him appear really miraculous, and amused his friends on many occasjons, Y But Jethro Mullen was no longer one of them—no longer one of the gang—having been left severely alone by them, much to his delight, he having long ago ar- rived at the conciusion that nature never intended him for a ‘‘t h.?? There was one person, however, whom Bill was de- sirous of astonishing, and that was an old Irish wom- an who did the washing for the students on that floor, She was a very talkative old duck, having evidently kissed the blarney-stone in her youth, and not only that, but she had a light-fingered way of appropriating for herself whatever she found in the students’ rooms that was either good to eat or drink. 3 Mrs. O’Whack had a very playful way of filling her- self fall of Tommy’s beer, whenever she chanced to find it lying around Joose, and as her carrying capaci- ty was much too large for ordinary quantities, Bill Gunn concluded that he had thought of away to put a stop to it. So the next Saturday night he had three or four of the boys in his room when Mrs. 0’ Whack brought in the wéek's washing. Sly was also there, full of life and fun. The old gal was not long in discovering him. ‘Ah, ye have a dorg, Mr. Gunn ?? * Yes,?? replied Bill. “ Be me sowl but he’s a purty one. How long haye ye had him ?”” she asked, patting Sly on the head. “Oh, gbouta week. We got him for a watch-dog.” “A watch-dog in a college! Fut will he watch?’ “Thieves. And he is not only a watch-dog, buta talking-dog’as well.”” ‘ “A what?” she almost screamed. : “A talking-dog; one of the St..Olympus breed.” “Och, what are yees givin’ me? <A torkin’-dorg! Who iver heard of the loikes?”” and she laughed loud and jong. ‘You don’t believe if, eh?” “ Divil a bit of it. Yer givin’ me tarfy.”? “Tet her hear him talk,” said Tominy. ? _“ All right. Here, Sly, sit up and let the woman hear you talk.” : The dog at once arose upon his haunches, while Mrs. O’ Whack started back even at this little example of sagacity. “ Halloo, old gall’? Bill made him say, or seem to pale, “ Howly Mother, protect us! It spakes; it’s the very diyil, sure enough,” said she. ’ “Well, Sly, how do you like Mrs. O’ Whack ?” “N.G., no good,” said the dog, shaking his head, just as he had been taught to do, peice “Have you ever seen her before??? “ Yes; she steals beer,’’ said the dog. “Flowly Moses!?? exclaimed Mrs. O’ Whack. . “What! Does she steal our beer?” asked Bill, pre- tending to be surprised. Dh Yes This created a laugh among the boys, but the old woman didn’t appear to feel a bit like joining in it. “It’s a darned loie!? said she. *Nixy, I saw you.” : “ Howly murther!’’ ‘ “He never telis a lie, Mrs. O’Whack,” said Tomm Bounce, soberly. ‘Be me sowl, but that’s the wust I iver heard.” “Yes, if is very bad. Wehave missed beer several times lately, and so we got this dog to watch and tell us who it was.” ‘ ‘s Worra—worra, was. there iver onything loike it in ther worruld? He spakes!? < * Yes; so you had better look out in the future what you do in our room,” “ Begorra, but he’s wrong. mé loife.?? “Ah, the dog will not lie.” “Shure, but he’s mistaken.. that J tuck yer beer?” “T saw you down it,’’ said Sly. ‘ “Well; that bates the divil!’ she muttered, and hastily gathering up her basket and things, she lit out of that room without stopping to ask any more ques- tions. But it had its desired effect upon her, for never again did they ever miss the slightest thing from their rooms, and being guilty, she kept her information to herself regarding the mysterious animal—the dog that could talk as well as 4 man. a ' And they had bushels of fan with Sly, who soon be- came well known to the students, although all knowl- edge of him was‘kept away from unfriendly ears. One evening Tommy and Bill Gunn took the dog out for an airing, and as they were out for that luxury themselves, they walked quite a distance away from the college, where they felt sure that nothing was known about the animal, and then went into a little German shop where lager was the principal hardware. sold, and took seats at the table. u - ‘Phe proprietor was a big, lazy Dutchman. who gen- I niver stole yer beer in How should he know i erally drank more beer than he sold, and who almost | dreaded to see customers enter lis place, because he | would have to get up and wait upon them. finally got him into such good form that he could, say, at which the old woman gave a start and turned |. ‘« Swei beer,” said Tommy, striking the top of the table with his cane. ; Reluctantly the proprietor brought it, but on reach- ing the table where they sat, he was surprised to find the dog sitting up in another chair between Tommy and Billy, looking earnestly at him. “Mine jimminy, bu dotish a great dog ter do dot!" said he, admiringly. “ Where’s my beer?” asked Sly.” “Hey!?? exclaimed the Dutchman, starting bact and dropping the glasses upon the floor, breaking them very badly. 4 ‘ What's the matter with you, old man??? asked Tommy, indignantly. ‘ “Vot’s der matter mit dot tog, I guess?’ said he, re- garding him closely, and to all appearances forgetting his beer and glasses, “He wants some beer.?’ “Mine Gott, dish ish not a tog saloon. He talk shust like a man.?? ; nut?” *T hear dot tog speak.?? “Oh, yowyve got the ‘jims,’ beer and one for the dog,”? “Oh, mine cracious!”? et Guess you have been drinking very bad lately, eh? i “T trinks me nodings—dwédndy-five, dirdy glass beer all day. YVatish dot?’’ " ‘“ Well, hurry up,” said Bill, impatientiy. “Oh, mine cracky; I hafe got *em!” he groaned, as he went for more beer. ‘ ns On returning with it, Sly shook one of his fore-paws Bring us some more ‘to him, which again interested, if it did not alarm him. Bill assisted the dog so that he could reach the glass of beer with his. tongue, while the Dutchman stood by and watched the sagacious maneuver, “ Here’s looking at you!” said Sly. ‘“Mine Gott! Did you hear dot?? “What?? they both asked. ‘“He say here vas lookin’ ad me! Oh, dot vas der greatest dog I efer see.”’ } : “Nonsense! The idea of a dog talking; I tel’ you you must be off, bad.’? ay “He's got ’em,’’ put in Sly, whereat the puzzled Dutchman started again and Jooked as though a ghost had spoken to him. “Oh, mine Gott in Himmel, dot vas too much?’ he groaned. ‘ “ Better swear off, old man!’ said the dog. “This was entirely too much, and after glancing from first one of the fellows to the other, and noting their looks of honest surprise, he bolted out of the room, frightened half out of his five senses, : But it cured him of drinking so much, and to this day he firmly believes that he heard a dog talk, and warn him to swear off. It was the strongest temperance jecture that was ever given, and on the way back to heir room they enjoyed a hearty laugh at the expense of the frightened Dutchman. 2 : CHAPTER XI. Tomaty’s dog, Sly, afforded him and Bill Gunn heaps ofamusement. All the boys swore by Sly, for when there wasn’t anything else to take up their attention and work out fun for them, Bill Gunn and his dog al- ways came to the front. - 5 After the racket with the Dutchman, he who kent the lager beer saloon, Bill felt that he was able to tackle almost anything. He had triumphed in several in- stances of amateur ventriloquism before, but,this con- vinced him, as well as Tommy Bounce, that ‘he could do almost anything in that line and get away with it— with a whole skin. The story of this racket soon spread among the students, and many a laugh was had over the affair. And still Tommy and Bill were enabled to keep their dog without having any bothersome questions asked by the janitors or any member of the faculty. In short they knew how to eae Sly. i But one day oné of the janitors. Mr. Bugle, happened to hear Sly yelping for his rations, and although he could not get at him, yet he felt certain that there was a‘dogtin the building, contrary ‘to the rules of the college. And, of course, as a good officer of the college, he was bound to ferret the matter out and report to his superiors. t 2 So he called one evening, just after Tommy and his chum‘had returned from supper, for the purpose of “interviewing? ihem. ! Now it must fbe understood that this Janitor was human, that is to say, he was one of those men who would wink at almost anything, providing there was something of a consideration. Both Tommy and Bill knew the weakness of this particular janitor, and when he came knooking at their door that night they felt that there was @ possi- bility of making ‘* solid.’ i ; “Ah, Bounce, and Gunn??? said he, as the door was opened for him. f “Certainly, Mr. Bugle. you?” asked Tommy. “Well, now, young gentlemen,” said he, sauntering into the room, “ you knows me pretty well?” * Certainly.” t x “And you know I am not unreasonable “ Oertainly not.” f “Toxcuse me?” ? “ Certainly,?’ this by both: of the boys. “You have a dog here.”? “A dog? “A dog.” ' 7 « » A canine?’ ; -* A barker.” E Can we be of any service tc “Talk! What's the matter with you? Off your
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. 13 “ Well?” ; : “hats all right. I don’t pretend to swear to it, put you know it is against the rules, young gentle- men.” “ Oertainly. But you have evidently got an attack of the hydrophobia.”’ . “Well, I—"” ; “This is a certain cure for it,” said Tommy, placing a fiye-dollar note in his hand. ‘Well, yes, I have heard that it was.” “Tt is called Greenbackubus Hydrophobus.’? “Yes, Ihave heard of that cure,” said the janitor, fondling the note. : “ ‘Heavens! What assurance !? * Alas dreadful |’? : ‘We saw you promenading with a female coloreé person on your arm.’? 4 an) “Never, sir, never! There is some horrible mistake — here, I can prove by a dozen that I haye not beep
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20 ‘ TOMMY BOUNCE, Sr., IN COLLEGE, ss eut of my room this afternoon,’ protested Blobbs earnestly. 7 “Do you presume to say that I don’t know you ?”” * Oh! Mr. Blobbs! I cannot say, professor.” SS of course you know me, but you are greatly mis- taken if you think you saw me outside of my study this afternoon, to say nothing of being drunk.” “Smell of his breath,’ suggested the officer. ‘ Bah P? this from hoth president and professor. © This sounds very much like the story told by Jethro Mullen; that he saw me in No. 12, and that I there ad- ministered to hima rebuke and a pledge,” said Blobbs. The president started. ‘Do you remember, sir ?)” * Well——” and the old man became thoughtful. ‘Tt will seem like a piece of the same business, will it not, iff prove what I say??? “Well, yes, but——”” “Give me an opportunity to prove it, sir.’’ “ Officer, you may not arrest him just now. Iwill look further into the matter. It is barely possible that I have been mistaken; butifso, this college shall be urged from head to foot. Do you suspect anybody, ry. Blobbs 2)? ‘ : “Yes; Bounce and Gunn.” CHAPTER XIII. THE officer who had been brought by the presidext of the college to arrest Professor Blobbs for being drunk and promenading with a wench (a racket of ‘tommy Bounce and Bill Gunn) was sent away, and measures were at once taken to ascertain where the deception lay. Blobbs had announced that he suspected Tommy. Bounce and Bill Gunn of complicity in the business, but when questioned closely, he had nothing to prove his suspicions, only that they were the acknowledged leaders of all sorts of deviltry and mischief; and who 80 likely to have a hand in as they ? “But, sir, how are we to account for your perfect counterfeit?’ demanded the president. “Alas! yes,” moaned the professor, who had also witnessed the humiliating spectacle. “True, but how are we to account for the counter- feit which was mixed up with Mullen, and which created so much trouble ?” asked Blobbs. “JT only hope it may be accounted for, Professor Blobbs, for the thought that a professor of Yale Col- Jege should be known in suoh a humiliating affair is almost too much for belief, to say nothing of the dis- grace to.all parties.” -‘* Oh, it is dreadful |’? moaned the other professor. “The scandal must be proved or disproved. First tell me who will say that you have not been out of your room this afternoon.’ Blobbs gave him a list of names, “J suspect there is ingenious deviltry at work here, but if Shall be reached and punished, sir.’ “JT say amen to that,’ said Blobbs; ‘but be kind enough to hold me innocent without further degrada- tion, until proven guilty, will you not?” “J will, for it is but just. I must find a student whom I can trust, and make a detective of him. Good-night;” saying which, they left the bewildered Blobbs alone. ° Was there ever. such a situation? Trying to make eure of who the culprits were drove all sleep from his mug that night, but beyond his suspicions he was just as*wise in the morning as he was before, All day Sunday he puzzled over it, and the students laughed over it. ; The next day it seemed as though every student in the college, old and young, had his face set on a broad grin over the affair, and one or two of the older classes actually gave Blobbs a cheer when he showed up at chapel the next morning. And when his class came before him to recite, later in the day, he found theni in such a titter that they could give but a poor account of their lessons, Poor Blobbs ! ‘‘ Gentlemen, I suppose I know what you are pleased over, for you probably witnessed that disgraceful affair on Saturday, but, depend upon it, the culprits will be fotind out and sevérely punished,’ said he, say- agely. ‘ “}Dund out |” She ‘* Punished |’? said several, looking astonished. “Yes, punished. Why do yow ask such a question, Mr. Bounce?” he asked, fixing his eyes upon Tommy, whio, taken so suddenly, forgot his usual coolness for an instant, and blushed. “Why, wasn’t it you, sir??? ‘No, sir; but I strongly suspect that it was you, or that you had a hand init,” said Blobbs, severely. “Tam very sorry that you have such a poor opinion of me sir. But will you have the goodness to ex- plain??? said Tommy, composedly, although manifest- Ing considerable curiosity, “Explain yourself, sir! If ¥ inistake not, you, at 4 cast, need no explanation. But, lest any one should »élieve that I had anything to do with the disgraceful affair, I will state that somebody, made up So as to per- sonate me, had the audacity to parade around the col- lege grounds and the streets on Saturday, in company with a negro wench, drunk.’? ‘Ts it possible !’” said Tommy, with open eyes. “Who could it haye been?” asked Bill Gunn, in well-feigned astonishment. “That is what I propose to find out, gentlemen,”’ he seplied, with blood in his eye. . j The whole ate manifested much astonishment, al- though they all knew just who it was who had played the racket, but none of themlooked more astonished than Bill Gunn and Tommy Bounce. ; After this explanation the class proceeded with the 4essons of the day, although the’smiles of two or three, ' ; ” of them almost gave the secret away, and convinced Blobbs, who watched them all closefy, that they knew more about the affair than they cared to teli. Once out of the class-room, of course they could give expression to their pent-up feelings, and a hearty laugh was the result. ; “But you havyen’t heard the best of it yet, fellows,” said Bill Digby. . ‘What is it 7”? asked a dozen. “Why, ‘Presy’ actually went for a policeman and. took him to arrest Blobbs,” said he, at which there was a renewal of the laughter. “Good boy |’ “ Bully for Blobbs !’? “ How did it work?” “Worked on his feelings, I guess,” Tommy said. ‘“But he didn’t arrest the old rooster, after all. How is that??? ‘Why, he ‘kicked’ like a mule, and swore that he hadn’t been out of his study ali the afternoon, and could prove it. So ‘Presy? let him off, and is going to try and find out who worked tke racket on him.” “ Bill, you and Tommy will have to lay low,’ said one of them, : “No, we won't, if none of you follows give us away,” said Tommy. “Of course we will never give it away, but you know nearly every student in college knows about it, and some ofthe fellows on whom we haye played tricks may blow.’’ “Oh, I guess not,’”’ said Tommy; but even while he spoke one of the janitors came up and told him that the president wanted him and Bill Gunn. At this they all started and exchanged glances. “ What is that you say—wants us both??? “Yes; right away—at his library,’ said the man, walking otf. $ “How is that, I wonder?’ asked several, as they crowded around Tommy and Bill. ; * Do you suppose it has been given away already?” asked Bill, manifesting some considerable anxiety. ‘ Perhaps it has.’? ‘ “What will you do?’? asked Jethro Mullen, who was one of the group. “What shall Ido? hat don’t trouble me s0 much as it aoes to know what he will do,’ replied Tommy, trying to laugh. ‘*Oh, brace up, boys,’? said Mark Harmer. “Brace! You bet we will. Come, Bill, we haye got to put in a little fine work, for you know we have both been ‘ warned? before, and if he wants us on ac- count of this racket, we have got to do some Classic lying.”’ “That's so,’ said Bill, sadly. ““Gome along. We can chin him right out of it; Pll pene said Tommy, who had somewhat recovered his spirits. Away they went, concocting a plausible story to seas were presently shown inte the president’s Study. By this time they were both feeling somewhat more comfortable, hoping that the cause of their being sent for was some other than what they feared it was. But on entering the room they were struck dumb at beholding the disguises they had both worn in carrying out the racket that had occasioned so much excitement, ; Yes; there both lots of the toggery hung, and the president sat near by it, frowning upon the bewildered culprits. He had employed one of the senior students to find out about the matter; after which the toggery was found in their room and taken away. i This knoeked the little story they had concocted higher than a kite, and it also knocked them speech- less; or, even if they had had the power of speech, they hadn’t anything to say in the face of those criminating articles, “T perceive that you recognize your property, young gentlemen,’’ said the presiderft, after watching them for 4 moment. They exchanged confused glances, but made no re- ply. “*T Have sent for you, gentlemen, to restore you your property, and at the same time to expel you from this college,” They both started at the words, ‘“ With this understanding, I presume there is noth- ing further to be said, for, certainly, nothing that either of you cari say will help your case in the least, one way or the other. You must leave the college— expelled—with all the odium which that punishment entails.” Take your disguises and go at once, and I will inform your unhappy parents by letter what my reasons were for this procedure. Go? There was no mistaking the words or their meaning, and so, without opening their mouths, they bundled the toggery under their arms, and left the room. In fact, there was nothing for them to say, for if they had had fifty mouths, those evidences would haye stopped them all, and they knew it. 5 So they marched silently out, not even venturing to speak to each other until they were out upon the grounds, © Well, Bill?” ““ Well, Tommy?” “We have graduated.” “Yes, I should say so,” * And here are our diplomas,’ said Tommy. “Been bounced.” “ Actually fired out.” ty By the great horn spoon !? exclaimed Bill. “Oh, don’t get ‘spoony ’ over it.’ “But I don’t like being ‘forked’ out in this man- ner,’’ said he, sadly. ‘ " “This is the second bouncing we have had.’ “Yes, but I can’t exactly get used to it,” Hie wonder if old Slam wouldn’t like to hear of this ? “J presume so, for he predicted such a fate for us when he fired us out of his school. But who in thun- der do you suppose gave it away ?”” : “Td just like to know,” replied Tommy, shaking his clenched fist. ‘What will our folks say ?” “Say we have got education enough, I guess, and put us to work.” “What will the gang say ?” «Say good-bye, I guess.”? “Well, Tommy, you have got more nerve than I have to take it so quietly.” ., : “Well, what is the use? We are out and injured on second base, and whining won’t help us any. But I’d like to know how they found our togs?” he added, re- flectively. “The janitor must know.” “Why so??? z “Because he is the only one besides ourselves who has a key to the room. There he comes now. Ask him.’ Tommy hailed him, and he approached with a bread grin. “Who took these things from our romm i? | “The old man,’ * Did you let him in?” “ Yes.” ‘But who told him about them f"? “Hang me if I know; I did not, I know that, Al } know about it ig that he came to me and asked me te let him into your room, and I did so, He rummaged around. for some time, and then went away with those ings”? “Somebody must have told him.” “I dare say, but it was notme. What did he say to ou : vengity tae “what?” ‘He said get out.?? “The deuce you say, Expelled?” “Bounced,” replied Tommy, walking away with his crestfallen chum. The friends of both flocked to their room as soon as it was known that they had returned from the presi- dent’s house, and began anxiously to make inquiries, ‘‘Oh, He spit us out,?? said Tommy, cheerfully. “ What is that?” they all asked. i He thought we were too tough, and so he spit us out. “Gracious!” ‘No, he wasn’t a bit gracious.” “What is the matter, Tommy?’ asked Jethro, com- ing anxiously into the room. “Nothing, Jethro, only we were so far ahead of you other fellows that he concluded to graduate us ahead of you, that’s all.?? ** Expelled ?”? “Fired out, Jeth.”? “By gosh, that’s too bad!” he exclaimed; for, In spite ofall the tricks Tommy had played upon him, he liked him better than any other fellow in the college, as well he might, for Tommy paid all his bills, ' “Yes, it is too bad!’ they all said, ‘What the dickens shall we do for fan now ?” asked Bill Digby. ‘ ‘ “Oh, you'll have to stick to your books, and try te be respectable now,” said Tommy. t “Well, it was a risky racket, anyway, and you might haye known you would have got found outin it,” said Harmer, « ‘“Phat’s so, and we were found out and fired out,” said Bill Gunn, sadly. : ; “ When are you going to leave ?”? “Just as quick as we can get packed,” “Where will you go next?” “To the devil, perhaps. Hang me if I know yes what I shall de. A great deal will depend npon how a certain man by the name of Bounee, residing in New York, takes it.?? “Go to Harvard,” said one. “No; Princeton is the best,’? said another, “JT wish I was going with you,” said Smalley, “T yish you were all going with us. But tt’s no use talking, for you see we don’t know where we are going ‘ ourselves. Want to buy my boat, Frank Rack- abo, How much?’ 2 “J'll let you have it for half what it cost me—fifty dollars. What do you say?” “711 take it.?? i “Good boy; that’s off my mind. Now, then, Bin, let’s pack up. I say, fellows, if you see any books here that you want, take them, for I havea strong sus- picion that I shall not need them again.” “Oh, your dad may get you reinstated.” ‘What, here 7’? coves.) “Not much; he isn’t that sort ef a clove. And 1 wouldn’t care to come back, anyway, for we should be continually suspected, and old Blobbs would make it so warm for us that we shouldn’t need any fire al winter. Here, Sly, come here, poor dog,” he added, calling their dog from the closet where they kept him. “JT only wish he had been in the room when the ola man came in; he would have made it Jively for him,’ said Bill. “How are you going to divide the dog? asked Tommy, which created a laugh, they all knowing that they owned him in company. « “Oh, you take the ‘tan’ and I will take the ‘ black,’ I guess,” said Bill. “No, we'll play a game of euchre for him,” said Tommy, producing a pack of cards. S° All right.?? f ‘ is a dozen bottles of beer, my hearties; “And here 1 jump in and guzzle them,” said Tommy, pointing to a closet. : It didn’t require a second invitation for the party to
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. go for that beer, and by the time their game of euchre was finished, the bottles were all emptied into healths and well es for the future prosperity and happi- ness of the two fellows who had furnished them with 80 much fun. P * Bill Gunn takes the dog.’? * So he does.” Bill laughed, and patted Sly on the head as he sat up on’ the table, as though watching the game and know- log that it was to decide his destiny. Slowly and sadly their companions left them alone to pack up their traps and get ready for their depart- ure, and they afterwards held a meeting in Bill Digby’s room to take measures for giving them a grand send- off when they left New Haven. Tommy and Bill tried hard to be jovial as they pro- 7 ——— = = = * Good-bye, Tommy; good-bye, Bill,’’ he added, turn- ing to him with extended hand. “Good-bye, Jethro. Don’t believe all you hear, and only about half that yon read. Good-bye,” said Bill. **T say, Rackaboy, be good to Jethro, won’t you, and give the poor fellow a dollar once in awhile for pocket- money?” asked Tommy, earnestly. “You are right, I will; Lcan never forget a fellow who has furnished us with so much fun,” replied Rackaboy, laughing. ‘*Of course. You know he is poor and you are rich. Well, here comes the train. Once more good-bye, boys. Be good to yourselves,” said Tommy, as the train swept into the depot. Then the students struck up: ‘ For he’s a jolly good fellow,” and sang it with so much yim that the old de- Well, rather. Was he mad? Well, somewhat, a person would have believed, if they could have looked into the counting-room where he sat at the time, . And then his father had swallowed so much taffy from the young man, respecting the way in which he was getting along; and had swallowed it with so much pride, when, in truth, he was even worse than ever, and had been expelled! ‘Where has the young vagabond gone, I wonder ?? he mused aloud. ‘*I’ll go home, and ifhe is still there, I'll break every bone in his skin!’ saying which he slammed on his hat and ordered a carriage to drive him home with all speed. But the bird had flown, and thinking it might make iis ceeded with their task of packing up, but it was hard work, and even Tommy wasn’t half so merry as he pretended to be. That evening they had a jouy time in the room, which was crowded as full as it could well be with their friends, and the last night in Yale College was pine quite as loud and jovial as the old building ever ewe The next day they took the train for New York, Tommy having arranged that ay should leave their luggage at the depot there until they knew how the cat was going to jump, and that Bill should accom- pany him home, where they could represent them- selves as only home for a day’s vacation, and so get out again before the letter of the president, which he had told him he was going to send, could reach there, The students accompanied them to the depot in Jarge numbers, many of them sad and many glad that they were going, and there they sang college songs and cheered in the most lusty manner. On the approach of the train, and after they had all shaken hands‘ with them, wishing them all sorts of good luck (a scene which very.much resembled the one which took place when they left Mr. Slam’s school). Jethro Mullen approached Tommy and seized his hand, while his eyes glistened with tears. “Jeth, old man, be good to yourself,’ said Tommy, shaking the honest fellow’s hand warmly; ‘‘ bat don’t try to be a ‘tough.’ You can’t do it,’? he added, laugh- ing. " “That's so, Tommy. I found that ont long ago, but I’m allfired sorry you are going away, for I haven’t a real friend left now You are full of the devil, I know, but you can’t help it; but I like you, Tommy, better - than any other fellow who has shaken your hand to- rab said he, feelingly. * pot rang again, and as the train started they gave three rousing cheers, followed by the well-known col- lege cry. That was a send-off, indeed, but there was scarcely any happiness in it, unless it was for the teachers and college faculty, who now congratulated themselves with having got rid of two of the worst students who ‘ever entered the college. A few hours’ ride brought our friends to New York, where they took a carriage and fode directly to Mr. Bounce’s magnificent mansion, where Tommy’s moth- er, and everybody at home, with the exeeption, per- haps, of Ebenezer Crow and his wife, gave them a cor- dial weicome, and in which his father joined, without the slightest suspicion, on his return from business. The fact of their only having run home just to stay over night, and the magnificent quantities of “tatty” which Tommy gave his parents respecting the splen- did progress he was making with his studies, made his visit doubly welcome. : The next day Tommy braced his mother for a couple of hundred dollars, and got it; after which they took @ fond farewell and left the house, as though to return to college, just as his father received the letter written by the president, informing him that his hopeful son had been expelled. CHAPTER XIV. WE left Tommy Bounce and his chum just leaving the parental roof to go out upon the world without any definite idea regarding the future, while his father was in the act of reading, at his place of business down town, a letter from the President of Yale College, informing him that he had been expelled, and giving the reasons for if. believe it, Jethro, and thank you, Good-bye.” | Was Mr. Thomas Bounce astonished? NY) Th \Y his wife feel bad, he kept the knowledge of their sonra disgrace to himself. ** Expelled!’ he kept muttering to himself as hérode back to his store. ‘What on earth shall I do with him? Oh! that everI should be the father of a boy like that; I was a little wild myself at his age. I admit, but he is a great deal worse. He’s nota ‘chip of the old block,’ I'll be hanged if he is, He isn’t a——” and at this point the merchant fell to musing a Jittie. In spite of himself. his memory wandered back over his past life, eyen to the days when a kid, and know in his native place as ‘‘the village mischief,” and by the time he reached his store again, he had thought of about as many rackets of his own as were chargeable: to his son. ‘ But this failed to sweeten his temper much, for he had long outgrown his boyish pranks, and, like all grown people with children, he was far from being ready to pardon or smother over the very tricks and capers in boys that he once delighted in himself But what had become of Tommy? j Well, the reader may haye a curiosity to find out, sor I will take them along and let them see for themselves, “Have you got.an idea, Tommy?’ asked Bill Gunn, after they had left the house. “Yes,”? replied Tommy, “Whatis ite? “That we are out in the cold.> “Well. I guessso. But which way asked Bill, gloomily. “Towards the Grand Central Depot.” “Bah! what's the use of chafing now?” “Well, because we may feel more like it now than we shall by and by,”’ replied Tommy, langhitigs “Perhaps you are right, old man, but I can tell you, I feel very little like it even now.” “Nonsense. Brace up,” said Tommy, slapping bine are we going?”
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22 TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. on the shoulder. ‘‘Haven’t we got two hundred dol- elars 2) 4 i ‘Yes, you have’? - t ‘well, what’s mine is yours. Come along and nip your upper lip. .Here, Sly,’ he called, ‘don’t get on familiar terms with these bad eity dogs. See what your master has come to by getting into bad com- pany,” and again did Tommy laugh in his oid, merry Ww ay. : ' “Tommy, I believe you would laugh at a funeral,” said Bul. ; - ( “Not ifI was the central figure. But, I say, Bill, I really have an idea.” “OW ell??? , “We must get away until this, storm blows over, for I dare say that dad is having a regular war-dance by this time, and perhaps your parents are enjoying the same felicity.” 2 = >. Bill groaned, and thought of home and Boston. “Now, what do ee Say to taking a little spin over the country until the,thing gets settled? SEW here-t0 2a as arf : “anywhere., Go out West. Great openings for young men out there, 1’m told.” ; ‘Openings be blowed!? . . - y “DH tell you what. We'll take a trip to Cincinnati and stay a few days.’ “9 te : ** Cincinnati???” ; “Yes, Gincinnatl, O—ho—ho!? | ‘“ Allright. I guess I shall feel quite as well, and perhaps a little better, going that way than I should if i went towards Boston.” - ont “ Phat’s so.- Of course, the folks will fume and dance around for awhile when they lind that we have skipped.out on the strict Q. T:, buc after awhile they will get hungry for us, and we can return home like a eae ee prodigal sons, and help them: punish the fatted calf, eh?” — Ss . WAN Meht! \ eetiaeee This @ settled, they went:to the depot, bought tickets, ad their baggage checked, and an liour from that time were seated in the smoking-car enjoying a pair of “weeds,” and looking at the flying scenery that was putting itself between them and New York. Tommy was as full of life and spirits as ever, but Bill Gunn was stili downeast and blue in spite ofall that he could do. aust up on a seat infront of them, and even he looked a trifle solemn and anxious, as though Pores. of his master’s feelings. In fact, it was te shat ortwo before either of them began to feel very lively. i limay bé well to state here that before leaving New York Bill Gunn had telegraphed home that he would return aud explain everything, While Tommy sent this characteristic telegram to his father: “Dear DAD:—The Bounce was bounced, and has Sounced off on a little pilgrimage until the dust gets settled. CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.” And away they were speeding towards Albany at the rate of nearly a mile a minute. “T’ll bet a dollar that dad is. asmad as he can be _ about now,” said Tommy, as they were talking about the matter. “Yes, and I guess it will take some time for the dust £0 settle, too, for this racket has kicked up quite a big one,’? said Bill. “Oh, [know him. He'll kick himselfall around the #oom because he can’t get atme for the first few days, after which he will taper off and become quite a rational and respectable parent. He used to bea tough when he was my age.?? : “Yes, but those are the very fathers who go hardest on their children, I have heard,” ‘Nonsense. My dad is a darling, if you only keep out of the way until the dust settles.” At this point the train stopped, and a long, lean countryman get on the train and marched, by acci- dent, into the smoking car, lugging a big carpet-bag. Tommy’s eyes twinkled with merriment the moment he saw the man sling himself ana bag into the seat ahead of him, and he called Bill's attention by nudg- ing him. “Stag his nibs?” ‘ “Yes, that’s old Hayseed himself,?? said Bill. The countryman took a look around the car and saw several persons smoking; then he turned to our friends, “Du they low anybody tu. smoke,in this car ?’’ he asked, with some earnestness of voice. ‘Oh, certainly, if you have got a check,’ said Tom- my, looking kindly at him, ; * A-check! What?s that?” i _ “Why, like this,” said Tommy, showing him his «runk check. e ‘Where du yer get ’em ?”? A “Have to get them at the ticket office where you buy your ticket,’? 5 “mhunder! How much??? _* One dollar.” “One dollar! What gosh darned swindlers’ these railroads be. Jest charged mea dollar for ridin’ up ter fludson where I belong,”’ said he. i ; Oh, they'll skin you if you let them.?? “But how be yu goin’ to help it?” i “Well, there’s one way.) . “THow’s that?” he asked, quickly. “They don’t charge anything for walking on their ¢racks,” said Tommy, looking serious, “Waal, yes, I guess that’s so. Putty darned good foke on me, that was,” said he, grinning. : “Tt would be if you bad to walk itl’” “Right yu be, youngman. But I wish I had one of tiem darrred checks, for I want tu smoke like all git auth # Tommy happened to think that he had anold medal tn his pocket. worn bright and smooth, and with it that he mizbt have a little quiet fan, so he said: a {I will lend you my check if you like.” a “Waal, by. gosh, that’s good of yu, young chap, I can’t afford to pay a dollar, but I’d like to smoke. Will they let yu lend ’em?’’ “ Well, it’s against the rules of the company, but the conductor knows that we have checks, and of course will not ask to see them again, s0 you might just as well borrow mine as not; he will neyer know but that it is yours.” ; “ Good, by gosh, good! Yube fhe sort of a chap 1 like to meet. Nothing mean or stuck up about yu, if yu do wear store clothes.’? : : “Certainly not,?? replied Tommy, handing him the old medal. ‘ Put itin your pocket, and ifthe conduc- tor asks for it, show it.” “All right, said he, pocketing it and pulling forth an old pipe that was strong enough to go alone and carry baggage. Proceeding to light this, he leaned back in. his seat with an expression of calm delight on ‘his face, firm- ly believing that he was beating the railroad company out of a dollar. ft ; “ Nice sort of a dorg you've got there,’’ said he, after puiling awhile, at the same time reaching over the back of the seat to pat Sly on the head. ** Look out, old man—l’m bad!’’ the dog seemed to Say, whereat the countryman drew back his hand in astonishment, ; “* Thunderation?’ he exclaimed. “Be quiet, Sly,” said Tommy, reprovingly. must not talk to strangers that way.” “Tork! Great juniper, does he tork?” asked the man, starting to his feet, “Oh, yes; but I never allow him to do so in public. He is tired and cross to-day,” “Yu don’t pertend tu tell me that that critter acterly torks, du yu?” . * You just heard him.’? , “Waal, Iswanny! Say, what breed is he??? “Don't know. First one everI saw. But don’t call the attention of the passengers to him, for it makes hin dread.ul mad, and besides, I don’t want a crowd around me.?? , ‘Waal, if that don’f beat all nafer!’.and so much interested did he get that he allowed his pipe to go out. Just then the conductor entered the car for the pur- pose of taking up tickets, but by the time he had reached the party, the countryman had got his old pipe going, arjd was fast filling the car with tobacco smdke Strong enough to kill potato-bugs, The conductor took his ticket, and then stopped to look at him, as he was fast hiding himself in the pun- gent wreaths. “Oh, thats all right, squire.” said he. ““What’'s all right??? asked the conductor, “ Why, this smoking,” i “Perhaps somebody else might think differently,’? said he, glancing at Tommy and Bill, as if to see whether they were being smothered or not, “Oh, I’m all fixed.’ “T should say you were, and that you are In danger of fixing everybody else in the car.’? * Got my check right here, boss.’? “ What check ?”? j ‘** Smokin’ check,” “Let me see it,” he asked, curiously. ‘“There she is,’? said,he, producing the medal, The conductor tookfit, and “anced from it to Tom- my, who tipped a wink. “Can’t fool me, if I hain't traveled much,’’ sald the man, between his puffs. “Thats allright. Go ahead, only don’t smoke peo- ple out of the car, or make tobacco hams of them,” said the conductor, returning the ‘‘ check,” and;going out with a big grin on his face. “How’s that? Wasn't that bluff??? every finely worked,” said Bill. * Bet they don’t make much out of me. The idea of chargin’ a man a dollar tu smoke! These railroad companies are meaner ’n goose-grease pills,’ said he, and then straddled the stem of his pipe with his anx- ious lips again. ; ‘‘ Nothing like being sharp for them.’? ‘ “Yu bet. But, Isay, how *bout that dorg? —Doesn’t it take the rag right off the bush?” “Well, rather.” : Where'd yu git him ?”? “Te came from Mount Olympus.” “You don’t say so! So he’s a limpus dorg ?”” ‘Yes, very rare, they say.” At that moment a brakeman opened one ef the car doors, but as he went out, Bill Gunn shouted Hud- son!) in a voice which sounded exactly as though the brakeman had shouted. . : “ By gosh, this is Hudson!’’ exclaimed the country- man, leaping to his feet and seizing his big carpet-bag. ‘‘ Here’s yer check, young chap. Much obleged. Good- bye,”? and he made a wild dash for the car door, slam- “You ming people on either side of the aisle with his bag as |» he did go, Opening the car door with considerable difficulty, he was confronted by the brakeman, while Tommy and Bill stood up in their seats to see how the racket would work. “ Stop her—stop her!? he shouted. “What's the matter?” demanded the brakeman. “Stop her, 7 say. 1 want tu git out.’ “Get out! Out of your head now, I guess. Go back into the car and shut the door.’”? : Wy eat I want to stop at Hudson!’ he persisted, oudly, ™ “Hudson be rammed! We aren’t within ten miles of Hudson yet. Get back into the car.” “No, I won’t, Yu can’t fool me. Stop her!’? he yelled again. f i The next thing that countryman knew he was hustled back into the car, whirling around and tum- bling over three or four men near the door, who in turn banged him around quite lively in return, ‘Stop her—stop her, I say!) he kept yelling all the while, although it is a great wonder that he hadn’t mistaken the affair for a railroad smash-up. / , “ What's the matter with you? Go sit downl” yelled half a dozen passengers, ; ‘*T want to get off at Hudson.” ‘Well, wait until we get there, then,” “That chap out there yelled ‘ Hudson.) ’” “Oh, you are off your nut. Go sit down and dry up,” was all the consolation he got, and so he made, his way back to his seatagain. + ‘“ What's the matter?” asked Tommy, ‘Why, that darned fool yelled out Hudson; didn’t you hear him?” ; ‘“ Well, J thought I heard something that sounded like that,” Lay ite “So did I,” ie in Bill. eed “Rot blast his picter, he better not fool me that way again, or I'll get mad.’? 25 eee mi J think I should if I were you.” » “But maybe somebody shouted it for fun,” sng. gested Bill, honestly, « = “ Waal, it wouldn’t be very funny for whoever it was ifL only knowed it. But 1 fooled ’em on my smoke, anyhow,” he added, sinking back into his seat. f Passengers Who sat near saw that the two young fellows had got him upon a frightful string, and were enjoying it quite as much as they were. But presently the train slowed up, and the brakeman really did call out Hudson, and the victim of the joke left the car amid the laughter and spoken compliments of the passengers. ‘ : “ Oh, yu all go tu blazes and pump thunder at tliree cents a clap!’ he called back at them, as he reache? the car door. After the laughter had ceased, they heard him on the platform of the station, yelling at the conductor, and shaking his big fist. ‘“T beat yu darned smarties out of I got my smoke for nothing’ =” And they could see him laughing as the train moved away, and he was evidently telling a group of people there how slick he had got his smoke without having to pay for it, all of which furnished amusement for the passengers for a long time afterwards, they yoting Tommy and Bill two first-class bricks. At Albany they stopped over night, and went to the theater, and in other ways enjoyed themselves first- class. The next day they took the cars for Niagara Falls, where they spent some time viewing the sights and wonders, and the next day went to Buffalo, where a few hours more were spent very pleasantly. In fact, with what fun they managrd to pick up on the cars, and at the different places where they stopped over, they had no reason to complain, even if they were away from home, } ; At the end of a week they arrived at Seat: Ohio, a beautiful city, of which they had heard a grea deal, and which they now proposed to become well acquainted with, ‘ ' ts During the first three or four days they traveled ‘for that purpose, and in the evenings attended theaters and places of amusement, a: They boarded at a small hotel, and two rayer young STONE than they were could not be fonud in the Queen city. f But misfortune befell them one. night, for, getting into acrowd, Tommy had his pocket picked of all the money they had in the world, with the exception ot some small change, that altogether did not amount to more than two dollars, and Bill Gunn lost his watch at the same time. i Well, wasn’t that a nico box to be in? T-vo hluer ee than they were it would have been hard to nd. They looked at each other in such a forlorn, dejevted way that they both finally burst.out laughing. They were seated in their room at the hotel, and both seemed dazed. . “A nice box we are in now,” said Bill, “A deuced sight cooler than any ige-box I was ever in before,” said Tommy, trying to smile. “Tow much do we owe here??? “Oh, probably twenty dollars.” ; “Well, what are we going to do about it?” “T wonder what the landlord will do about it?? “Mhat’s' the question, He will probably keep our baggage and refuse to keep us. Oh, whit a confoun ed shame. .Why didn’t you let me keep part of ths money ??? j “ih? What time is it, Bill?" . “Oh, yes; I know they got my watch,” ( “Well?? ‘ * Well, it is confounded mean, are going to do??? ‘ 7 give it up.” f “ Gan’t you send home for some ?”? eos, “Fam afraid the dust jasn’t settled yet, Bill.” . “Well, our ‘dust? is settled, anyhow,” » i Aaa Our dust is settled, and we can’t raise the wind. . h sSeenee “Wonder how it would work if we should writa home for some, Bill?”? ‘ ee ““Some bill ?”? ‘ : ** Some bills, then.” “Tam afraid that a certain large Bill would get set- tled. Well—well, if this isn’t a pretty pass! Let’s get some sort of work to do.” eon “T am actually afraid that we shall have to become honest men ‘and go to work, Bill. The thought+is al- most overpowering, isn’t it? : f “ Or become tramps.”? , CORY ey “Well, we are very near that now. How about your - ER ee ke ad you make that pay in somo way?’ : , a dollar any way. But tell me what w '
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN» COLLEGE. “Ym afr2id not; I haven’t got the cheek, although poverty nay sufliciently harden it yet.?? “Nl tell you what, IL think I have got an idea,” said Tommy, after a pause, “what is it??? “Dll take what money we have got left and tele- ph to dad to telegraph me on some money.’? “But suppose he refuses—we are then completely burst.’? “Th try it, at all events,” CHAPTER XY. We left Tommy Bounce and BiliGunn in Cineinnatl. where they had been robbed and were completely dead broke after the high old time they had had since leay- tng New York, and two sadder-looking pilgrims than _they would have been curiosities, indeed. ’ _ After vainly trying to think of some way ont of their trouble, bemg twenty dollars in debt at the hotel, be- sides being dead broke, Tommy finally summoned his pea cheek and sent the following telegram to his father: “DEAR Dap:—I am here without a cent. Please telegraph me'some money to return to you. “Tom BOUNCE.” “ T guess that will fetch him,” said Bill. “Well, I hope it will fetch the money; I don’t care so much about its fetching him.” ae — “ But suppose the dust isn’t settled yet ?’? . “In that case lam afraid we shall not receive any ‘dust? from him,’”? replied Tommy. ~* “ Well, let’s brace up and hope for the best, and, in order to be enabled to do s0 the better, let’s go and get @ segar.” i ‘ “Bully! That’s a good suggestion, Bill. Lead on— [ll follow thee,’ exclaimed Tommy, striking a Stage attitude. * Come on,” ‘Away they went in bright spirits, and in a few mo- ments there were two segars less for sale in Cincinnati than before. ~ xt ' While waiting for a reply to their telegram they walked around to kill time, and finally played a game of billiards, for the operator told them that it might be two hours before they got a reply from New York. But about noon a messenger brought it fo them, and with some nervousness Tommy tore open the envelope and read the following dispatch: * No. sir, { shall do nothing of the sort. Stay where you are or walk home, ¥ * T. BOUNCE.’ Bill Gunn gaye a prolonged whistle, and Tommy voked very blue, Here was a situation, “ By, thunder)? exclaimed Tommy, crushing the tele- gram in his-hand, * Good gracious I?’ sighed Bik, “ Here’s a g0.?? * Here’s a stay, I should say.” _* Yes, a stay of proceedings.” “What the devil shall we do?’? » “Ask me an easier one,’ “ Was there ever such cussed luck ?* , © Never,” and they both relapsed into silénce. “| say, Tommy, I guess the dust isn’t settled at home yet,’ said Bill, trying to laugh. : _* T guess not; but 1t settles us,” replied Tommy, gloomily. “Yes; only we had better not let it settle us here. How about our hotel bill??? a “How. about this Boston Bill? Doesn’t. he feel Sick 2" “You bet he does. What shall we do??? * Count railroad ties, I guess.” “What! walk back??? * It costs money to ride.’? » That's so. What the devil sha!l we do??? “ Alas—alas! dead broke, aud a thousand miles from home??? said’ Tommy, comlcally. “What would my folks Bayi? “Well, you see what mine say. Most likely yours would say the same thing, or words to the same effect. But we have got to get out of this or be kicked out. Of course we can’t take our trunks, but we will put on our best of everythme, and fill our pockets with all they will hold,and leave the remainder to the over- confident Jandiord. Come on,’? - As they started up-stairs to their room, the clerk of the hotel beckoned them to his desk, and most grace- folly introduced them to their bill for a week’s board. ‘Oh, bill, eh?’? asked Tommy, looking at it in a cool, unconcerned way. i * Bill,” replied the clerk, sack as GOO). “Do you think we are going to run away??? “No, sir’? “Welll?’, : “We remder bills at the end of the week.” “Allright We will go away for good to-morrow. so Just let it stand, and we will pay it all at the same tinje,” said Tommy, waving his hand in 2 tordly way. “Ali right,’ replied tie clerk, and the two bursted youths went, up to their room, | That was a lucky escape,” said Bill * You are right, 1t was."’ * What a nerve you have got. Tommy.” * Well, [can just tell you that we have both got to cultivate nerve and cheek, for in all probability we ’ ghall’hayve many splendid opportunities to use them before we get home.’” : “I guess we shall. Here, Sly, old fellow, how do re feel about it?’ he said, patting his dog on the ad. ; To tel the truth, the intelligent animal did look and ' 28 act as if he understood. that his friends were in trouble, “ Oh, Sly’s all right, for if worst comes to worst; he can grub for his living, But Lsay, Bill, what a defect- iye teacher you are.’ “How so??? “What an oversight it was that you neglected the art of stealing when you undertook the education of this dog.’? “‘ what are you driving at?’’ “Why, when we are out on the tramp. haye secured us a chicken once in‘a while cation had been thorough.” “That's a fact, Sly, your education has been sadly neglected, seeing that you are now the dog ofa tramp. What a shamel?? Sly looked up in is master’s face and gave vent to a sorrowtiul howl, just as though he understood what was belng said. ‘Yes a great shame, and since if is hard work to teach old dogs new tricks; I think you will stand.a chance to go hungry with us, poor beggar.” *Come—come, let us get to business,” said Tommy, earnestly. ; “ Allright, fellow tramp.” . And at it they went, putting on two clean ‘shirts each, in fact, taking the best of everything they could wear without exciting suspicion, and then filling their pockets with other articles which they cared the most for, after which they were ready to £0. “Well, they won't get rich on what he have left them,’? Suggested Bill. ‘‘No, but they will most likely keep them as me- menitoes.”? ” r ‘J cuess not. They will most likely be able to re- mem er us Without these duds, Well, what is the first move?’ ; ‘ “To move out ofthis, after which we will go;to a pawn shop and ‘spout’ my ticker, forwe must have a little money, even ifit is too little to ride with. Come on. : ““Good-by, old room! We took possession of you like a pair of bubbles, and we leave you—busted?’ said Bill, with mock pathos. ; “Yes, we entered it a! the big end of the horn, and we leave it through the little end. Such, alas! is hu- Man greatness. We are here to-day and gone to- morrow !’? said Tommy. . Locking the door they took the key down to the Office and calmly hung it up in the care of the clerk, after which they walked out upon the street,with a sauntering air and\made their way to.a pawn shop. - Tommy had a nice little gold watch, a present from his mother, and the ‘ Uncle”! condescended to. loan him twenty-five dollars on it, a very considerable sum if judiciously used, as it was now certain to be. This over with, they made their way down Central avenue to the railroad depot. Here they paused for consultation. They found it impossible to get on board the train without first buy- ing tickets, and so Tommy purchased a pair of them to Dayton, i Getting on board of the express train, they were soon speeding along towards that city, and putting on as many dirs as lords. There had been no opportunity for a SES of cheek as yet, but Tommy ad a plan that would soon call out their nerve, ‘ On the arrival of the train at Dayton, another con- ductor took charge of it, whose run was from there to Cleveland. ; Tommy and Bill there separated, Bill going to the smoking-car, with his dog, and Tommy taking a seat in the forward car of the jong train, where he soberly busied himself with reading a paper, they having a perfect nnderstanding of what was to be done, and both on their good and serious behavior. E Of course, when the conductor came along to look up the tickets, he began in the forward car, and nat- urally enough came upon ay Bounce first. “icket,” he said, holding out his hand, “Ticket! Oh, ah——” and he began to look around as though in search of something, taking as much time as possible to do it in. “ Well?? asked the conductor, **My chum has got my ticket, and he isin the smok- ing-car. We go through to New York.” The conductor moved along withont a word, and continued his work of looking up the tickets of the passengers. } This, of course, took quite a while to do. In fact, it was fully half an hotir before he reached the smoking- car, where Bill Gunn was leisurely smoking a segar. “Ticket!” suggested the conductor. ‘““Why, my chum has my ticket, and he’s away eS somewhere,” said Bill, looking the soul of honesty. “Your chum?” * Yes, sir.”? 7 “There was 2 young man in the first car who said that you had his ticket. Now, how is it, anyway??? and the condudtor looked a trifle annoyed. “No—no! Whatsort of a looking party is the one you refer to??? “Young fellow about your age; short black hair, es cheeks, and rather a nobby-looking fellow. That m?” “That's him, for all the world,’’ ‘Well, he says you have the tickets.’? : “ Ah, but heis mistaken. He bas them in his satch- el, if he only remenrbers it. He showed them to the conductor at Cincinnati.”? “ We will see about that,’ said the officer, turning away to finish his work, for they were now well on thé road to Cleveland. Weill, on account of the stop at Mansfield, he was bothered for some time, and it was not-until they had started once more that he began his tour through the cars again. he could ithis edu- Then, of course, he came upon Tommy as before, scarcely remembering the affair, however, until he set his eyes on him again. “Say, look here; your chum, as you call him, says that you have got the tickets in your satchel,” said he, sternly. “ Why, no I have not. He has got the bag himself,” said Tommy, looking surprised. ‘Look here, young fellow, you come with me, and let us have this thing settled. I don’t quite see through this business.”? ; j r: “Oh, certainly! We have come through from St. LOR ae he has got the tickets in his bag; that’s all right.’ ‘it will be when I see them. Come along, and have the thing cleared up,” said the conductor, leading the way. : i But thinking he would save time*and‘another jour- ney through the flying train, the conductor took up und examined the tickets as he went along, thus occu- pying about twenty minutes more. And every minute was precions to Tommy and Bill} for at the rate they were then going every moment took them hearly a mile nearer to New York. © 7) Ais Rites But finally they reached the smo ang car. Goin straight up to Bill with an astonished look, followe: by the conductor, Tommy asked: ))— U Herehbeeaha “Where are those tickets, BLY? soot fen fi ~““Why, you put them in the bag at Cincinnati; don’t you ee asked Bill)” Re ih a Yes, but where is the bag?” eae “why, you have it, haven’t your? “No, J lave not. What's the matter with yon, any- |) way ?? a y : “There's nothing the matter with me. You had charge of the'satchel when we got off at Dayton for refreshments.?” . PLO at eertass| a “he deyil I did!" ; aie “ Of course you did.” Ad Bris tes3! “Well, Lhayen’t got itnow. ay ‘Allright; then you left it-at Dayton. Whata con- ‘founded stupid piece of business!" = : “But your tickets,” suggested the conductor: “They are in our bag at Dayton. Oh, what.a stupid piece of basiness! © And I have valtiables in that bag.” ‘What ashame!) i pana a “Well, what are you going to do?? the conductor asked, impatiently. a ape hine WOU Ut s “*What shall we do, conductor?” asked Tommy, with great sorrow in his voice. ie en Sak ae “Buy other tickets.”? " es ts . *“ But we have our tickets straight through to New York, and we lave no more money.??"* Freer -.“Do you suppose we could delogte pty back to the keeper of the restaurant and haye the bag forwarded?” asked Bill; earnestly, ee TBS : ' ‘They. were doing elegant acting, both of them. “well, [suppose you might do so’? 4 _* How far do you go with the train?” © Cleveland.?? "i “Very well. .We will ride with you to Cleveland, and then telegraph back from there.” © Or, when do you go back to Dayton?! *On the first train in the morning,’ ‘An, I have itP? said Tommy. “ Well?” asked the duped conductor, ‘Yes,’ put in Bill, anxiously. I “We willremain at Cleveland until the conductor returns to-morrow, and he can obtain our yalise and being it along with him, when we can give him our tickets.’ : ; “that’s so, Will you be kind: enough tc do that, Mr. Conductor??? asked Bill, with great earnestness. * Well, I suppose I can. What Sort ofa satchel is it?’ «4 black leather one, with the name 7iomas Bouiice painted on it.”” “Let me look at you two young fellows,” sald the conductor, and he gazed searchingly into their faces. But they acted so well, and looked so innocent, that pe coulant find it in his heart to suspect them of fraud. : f “Allright. I'll bring it with me to-morrow.” “Thank ba ee 4 “where did you leave it?” “T must haye set it down on the lunch-counter, and left it there.” “Very well. Iwill see you through to Cleveland,” ae thé conductor, finishing his work and going from the car, “How was that for cheek?” asked Tommy, after. making sure that the oficial was out of sight and hear- ing. “Let me finger into it. feel of yours,’ Said Bill, and he poked his “Tard as brass!” . floor near the “Well, I don’t think it would hurt yours much ifit should hit against it. But this is just high, hanky panky, wiggleum wo! Here we are safely put through to Cleveland. How’s that??? asked Tommy, gleefully, f at, and if we can only work a few more rackets like this, we can get put through to New York without trouble.?? At Cleveland they worked the very same business, and got through to Dunkirk by the skin of. thefr teeth, But here theirfgood luck forsook them for the time, and they got fired off the train, There they took to the track and walked to the next station beyond, where they managed to board another train, and by dint of the*most colossal check, got through to Buffalo all right. ET, ; By tits time their money was nearly all gone, and they found it a dimcult matter to get npon the New York trains, both being bounced seyeral times while attempting to do so without showing tickets, abe They made their headquarters at a gheap hote] neat. the depot, and Bill had some fun occasionally with his ~ “talking dog.?? Finally the idea sueeesved itself that he might pick up a few pennies wit! - Sly, and so arrangements were
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24 TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE, entered into with the landlord whereby they were to | ed the delighted Dutchman, dancing around the have the use of a small room off the bar-room wherein to exhibit his ‘great natural curiosity.” So, in a short time, there was a sign put on the door awhich read: “THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE AGE! Something Never Seen or Heard Before. G&A TALKING DOG.-@a Admission, 25 cents.” In # very short time this announcement created a _ Bensation, and as the landlord “‘ capped” for them, u i, | | | Ve i : : i i room. “All right. You come here to-morrow, and you shall have him,’ said Bill, whereat the Dutchman danced again, and afterwards told some of his friends nae he would make a fortune out of that wonderful og. As soon as he had gone, however, Bill went out and bought another dog that looked very much like Sly, and had him ready for the infatuated purchaser when he poeta next day, keeping his own dog out of sight. “He feels bad about parting with me; but.you will of course take good careof him. Give him nothing but broiled chicken, and Keep him well blanketed.” | i il | i ine The Dutchman laughed and danced, the quarters began to jingle in upon them at a lively rate. Tommy stood at the door to take the money and to harangue the crowd, while Bill and the dog did the fine work inside. And fine work it was, indeed, for Bill never let himself out so much in his life, and never succeeded better, while Sly seemed to understand that ' his best was expected of him, and acted like a major, the result being that people who went in to see him were puzzled, and many o° them acknowledged it good, and the show worth the money charged for it. For two or three days they kept this thing up, the result being that they found themselves with about na dollars, and perfectly independent of all rail- * roads, But the funniest part of the business was that they came across a showman who wanted to buy the dog, finally offering Bill one hundred dollars for him, evi- dently believing that the animal really talked. He was a Dutchman, and very ambitious to ecHpse Barnum. Bill didn’t care much about selling his dog, . but the fellow kept at him so persistently thatv he could hardly get away. “T tell you he won’t do anything for you. I have trained him, and he will not talk for you if you buy him,”’ said he. “Ah, dos is all right. I dake my chances mit dot torg, und I gife von hundred and fifty tollar for him. How vos dot??? he asked, “Oh, thatis all right, Isuppors. But if I sell him ~ to you, and he don’t talk, you must not blame me.” ' “Now, Bill, he will talk well enough after he gets used to the gentleman,” said Tommy, who was anx- ious for the sell and the money. ““All right, if Sly agrees to it. + Want me to sell you??? he asked, ' “T don’t care if I only get my rations,” the dog seemed to say. * “Oh, mine Gott! Oh, but dot yos great!’ exclaim- I say, Sly, do you en } ie = SS But in due course of time they arrived in Néew York again, having been gone nearly a month; but they came in light marching order, not yet having sent to- Cincinnati for their trunks, which had been left with the landlord of the hotel where they boarded in Keu of the money which they were owing him. ‘Well, Tommy, what are we going to do new ?” ask- ed Bill, after they had left the cars, “Do? asked Tommy, looking a trifle serious, as though the question bothered him. ‘ “Yes,” and ‘Bill also looked somewhat anxious. ; " Well——”? and he scratched his head thought- ‘ally. Well??? “Tsay, Bill, I hadn’t thought of that before. But 1 suppose you will go on to Boston.” J Wg Tl a | LA ni ID J <—LZA i NI \ 4) and catching his new purchase in his arms, he started with it on a run for his home. “Oh, you bade I will,’ said he, producing the money. “And after a few days he will get acquainted with you and begin the talk,” said Bill, taking the cash. “Oh, you bade !?? *“ Good-by, Sly, old fellow, be good to your new mas- ter, will you?’ asked Bill, patting the new dog on the head, “Yes, if he only feeds me well. Ta-ta,’’ the dog seemed to say, and again the Dutchman laughed and danced, and catching his new purchase in his arms, he started with it on a run for his home. Tommy and Bill exchanged long winks, and twenty minutes afterwards were seated in a car with aa! between them, bound for New York, and in high spirits. CHAPTER XVI. FORTUNE and Sly favored Tommy Bounce and Bill Gunn once more, and after an eventful journey from Cincinnati to Buffalo, they were now in funds again and ticketed through to New York, Both of them were feeling as fine as silk, and Jaugh- edover the trick they had played upon the Dutch showman, who thought he was buying a talking dog for one hundred and fifty dollars, when another ani- mal was substituted for Sly. : This, together with the fun they had had at Buffalo, exhibiting the ‘‘talking dog” at twenty-five cents a head, gave them enough to laugh at for a long time, and go full of-life were they that neither of them gave a SpOUED to the reception they were to get in New ork. Of course they picked up considerable fan on the train, as usual, for you might just as well attempt to keep a hen from scratching, as to keep either of them out of mischief. “Hang me if know, but I’d ten times rather stay where you are.” “And you know I would like nothing better than to have you with me,’’ said Tommy, earnestly. “JT somehow think that dad will make it particularly warm for me whien I get home,’ 4 “Well, he can’t beat my dad,” said Tommy. “Perhaps not; but he can beat me.” - , “Perhaps they'll both receive us like prodigal sons and toast the fatted calf; the infantile bovine,” said Tommy, laughing. “Tam afraid that calf will grow to be acow and die of old age if it don’t get killed before either one of our loving parents kill it on our account.” ‘Let’s run away some more.’? ; “Nixey; lve got a belly full of that sort of fodder. But I’! tell you what I will do; I will go to ahoteland wait until you——” “You'll wait and see eh??? “T]l wait until you settle the dust with your dad, if such a thing is to be done, and then I shall know bet- ter what to do myself.”” “Allright; that’s a good idea. Let’ssee, it is now about noon, and dad is down to the store, so I'll just go and interview mother and find out how the land © lays, after which I will join you at the hotel and let her break the news of our arrival to his nibs, after which I will see her again and find out what he says.” nad v “Good enough; I'll be right here to the Grand Cen- tral waiting for you,’ said Bill, and, shaking hands, the two friends parted. : In spite of Tommy’s ‘‘nerve,’? he went up to the front stoop of his father’s house with some hesitation and not a few misgivings. But he felt that the thing had to be done sooner or later,and so he pulled the door-bell. i It was responded to by George Washington Abra- whether I get killed or not,
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. bam Lincoln Crow, the colored hall-boy, about Tom- Iny’s own age, and whom the reader will most likely remember in connection with Tommy’s earlier ca- reer. : *Halloo, Crow. Where’s mother??? he asked, in a whisper, ‘ The astonished darkey gazed at him speechless, ‘ while his eyes stuck out far enough to have hung your hat on. * What’s the matter with you, anyway? ‘Where is mother—don’t you hear?’ Guess she am upin her chamber,” said the darkey, at length. ~ Alone ?”* “1 don’t know, sah.” “Dad isn’t in, ts he??? ! | it HK | iii) i ti ; My “But you telegraphed for money ?”” “Yes; we got robbed there one night, and got com- | pletely broke.” "© How did you get back again?” “On foot a part of the way; the remainder on cheek,” said he, laughing. : “Why, how dreadful!’ "Yes, it was rather rough.. But what does dad say about it?” 3 “Oh, Tommy, he is dreadfully angry.” : “TJ thought so from his answer to my telegram .or money. But hasn’t he cooled off any yet??? * J fear not.” * Then he must have been red hot.” *-I never knew him to be so angry before in my life, 7 } i Hi | a a } : oi a in “Weil, exciting, then.” . “Say disgraceful, rather.” H . “We only wanted to have a little fun. But what do you think father will do?” “IT cannot tell. He makes many threats, but what either he or Mr. Gunn will do I cannotsay. Oh, I am so sorry, Tommy.’’ “ Well, on your accountI am sorry, too. But there's no use in crying for spillea milk, Now, like my own dear, good mother, intercede for me and I will never be bad again,” said he. kissing her tenderly, ‘I will go to the hotel where Billy is, and visit you again to- morrow to hear how the governor feels. ‘Tell him ] am yery penitent, as Iam (in my mind), and you shall never have cause to be ashamed of me again.”* ** Oh, if you would only be a good boy.’ nT : i TAN Wh a nT Alt i) I it Hi | | i} int slut i i * How's that?” cried the cook, coming a double shuffle upon the carpet which made the dust fly like anything. “Good! Go it!” cried Tommy. * No, sah.” “ Has he sald anything avout me?” © Oh, Tommy, you jus’ oughter hear him.” * How ?? “Wid your ears.’’ * About what ?”* *' He go on jes’ dreffu "bout you.” “ Going to kill me?? * Don’t know; but guess he broke ebery bone in you’ body, putty nigh,” said the youthful Crow, shak- ing kis head, sadly. “Go up-stairs and tell mother I want to see her down in the parlor.” “Yes, sah; and away he went, while Tommy saun- tered inte the )uxurioas parlor. “1 guess I’m solid with the old gal yet, and’she can wheedle his nibs without any trouble, I am sure;?? and just then he stopped in front of of a life-size pho- tograph of himself, taken when he wasa kid. ~ “Oh, Tommy, Tommy, my sont’? cried a voice in |. ‘the parlor door; and tae next moment he was folded in the embrace of his weeping mother. . “My dear mother!” exclaimed Jwnmy; and al- though he really did feel a trifle bad oyer the matter, he caught himself winking to his own reflection in the pier-glass. “How are you, my boy?’ if ‘Tip top, mother—tip top. “Oh, Tommy, Tommy, how could you do such a dreadful thing?’ “Well, we couldn’t-go back to college, you know, ‘and so we thought we'd take a little run around until *he dust settled,” said he. ak “But why did you not tell us the truth? “Well, perhaps it would have been the beter way, gut I wasn’t quite ready for the circus then ” . “ Where have you been?” : ~Oh, out to Cincinnati, and all aronsd,’ and he scolded me because I took your part, and said that it was all my fault, your acting so.” “Too bad, mother—too bad, when he all the while knows that 1am only just as he was at my age; I have Let grandpop say that I was a chip off the old lock.?? * Well, Tommy, that is no excuse for your behaving as you have. You know that it was my influence that got him to send you to college, and although he pre- dicted how it would all end, I was in hopes that you would have graduated with honor.” “Well, so I should have done if they had Jet me alone, and not fired me out.” “Oh, my boy, your conduct there was dreadful.” “How do you know?” “Your father has visited New Haven and heard all about it, and I feel certain that he never will allow you to go to school again.”” “Well, that won’t make me sick.” ““Where is your companion?’ “Over to the Grand Central.” : “His father is on here.?? ‘What is thatyou say? Bill Gunn's father on here? What for?” “I don’t know; he and tion about you two.” “Oh, won't that make Billy jump when I tell him that his dad is here? Is he indignant ?’”” “ Very, and accused you of leading his son off, and making all the trouble.’? ; “Me? Jlead BillGunn! Well, that’s goed.” “But vour father tock him to New Haven, where he soon became convinced that his son was quite able to ‘play his part’ ~ : “Wel—well, this is interesting, indeed,” replied Tommy, laughing. ‘* No—no, my son, not interesting.” your, father are in consulta- “ Well, I will be, if you only fix it all right with the governor.’? ‘“Tommy, you know that I shall do allI can for you, but I fear it will be hard work to eflecta reconciliation between you.” “Oh, I know you can do it, mother.’? **T will try.?? j ‘And if you succeed, I will come home and be so good that wings will sprout on me.’’ ¢ “Do you wish any money?” “well, I would like to get some clothing.” “Indeed, you need it. Here is fifty dollars. Get what you require, und come here again at eleven o’clock to-morrow.’ “Ob, you are such a dear, good mother,” satd he, taking the money. ‘‘Good-bye,’? and he started down- stair for the purpose of going out by the basement oor. Seeing George Washington Abraham Lincoln Crow sitting in the lower hall asleep, he could not resist the temptation to turn a pail of stewed tomatoes over him, and to bang the pail down over his head, and then to skip out ifto the street, leaving the frightened darkey to yell murder and alarm the whole house. teturning to Bill Gunn, who was impatiently wait ing for him, he imparted the news, a portion of which startled him very much. But they braced up, and tried to find a bright side to the picture. They went to the theater that evening, and afterwards played a few billiards, to kill the time, { The next morning about nine o'clock, and while they were iust debating how they should pass the day, who should pop in upon them but Mr. Bounce and Mr. Gunnt — ~ ¥ Pei . The situation was decidedly awkward, and Bill, more than Tommy, felt very much cut up. : “Halloo, dad? said Tommy, rushing towards him with extended hand. ‘How you was??? ; _
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26 TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr.; IN COLLEGE, ‘None of your business, sir, Very little you care how I am,’ thundered the elder Bounce; which rather took the dash‘out of the youngster. “A nice affair this is, isn’6 it?” “Well, I suppose it is a little crooked.” “YT should say if was, and you may thank your mother that you do not get a flogging right here in public, you young scoundrel |? howled the old man, clutching his cane. Meanwhile, Mr. Gunn was interviewing that son ofa Gunn, and placing a few vigorous remarks where there would do the most good. “Now, rir,’ continued Mr. Bounce, “I have made up my mind, as Mr. Gunn has, that you have had all |: the education you will ever get, and that you must go to work at a trade, which will most likely take some of the deviltry out of you.” : “J don’t care what you do, if you will only let Bill and I stay together,’’ said Tommy. ‘Weil, if you can get any consolation from that you are welcome to it. e have arranged with a carpen- ter to take you both as apprentices, and you will live _ with him, and he has authority to flog the devil out of you both if you don’t behave.” ; % Allright. I dike the carpenter’s trade.a great sight better than 1 do the hardware business. When are we to begin? 3 . "4 At once; so come along, and we will deliver into his charge two of the worst boys that ever attempted to learn a trade.” “What do you think of it, Bill?’ asked Tommy. “J am satisfied if you are,’’ said he. i : “Satisfied or not, you will have to doit, for you have disgraced yourself by being expelled from col- _ lege, and are only fit for a mechanic,’’ said the elder Gunn, severely. ! “Mechanic! I’d rather be a mechanic any day than a stuck-up professional,’ said Bill. : “Ofcourse. They are the salt of the earth,” added ‘Tommy; ‘I always wanted to be one,?? . “Well, you shall have a chance, for Lam determined to make something out of you or break your neck, so come along,” said Mr. Bounce. ‘And that was the way the thing was settled. Both of the boys were taken to the carpenter shop of Mr. Plane, and put to work, bound for three years to learn the trade. The novelty of the change rather pleased both of them, although it took them some time to get used to it, both being the sons of wealthy parents and neither’ having done any work of any kind before in their lives. Butboth of them were stout, well-built young fellows, handy at almost anything, and in the course ofa few months they had not only made*rapid prog- ress at the trade, which they both liked, but they had ‘won thé respect of their boss, who regarded them as ¢wo very smart boys. as they really were. But it must not be supposed for a moment that ia had in the meantime wholly relinquished their deyil- try, for on the contrary they had as much of it as ever. ‘Yommy’s mother kept him well supplied with pocket money, and as they had their evenings to themselves, they went to some place of amusement nearly every night. Ang among the men employed by Mr. Plane they were great favorites, althoagh they often played great rackets on them, but oftener upon Ted O’fhump, the teamster, than the others. Ted was a regular wild Irishman, and the tricks “they used to play upon him nearly drove him crazy; and as for Bill’s ventriloquism, that stood him in goo: need, for he had learned to imitate the voices of the _ boss and several of the men. } ; The shop was two stories high, and Ted was liable to be called from one to the other by what he was sure vas the boss, only to get confused.and finally mad over the matter, although he never stopped to think that this fooling only took place when Bill was somewhere around. And there was another old fellow who talked through his nose, whom Bill could imitate so exactly . that if would deceive anybody in the world. _ For instance, Ted was busy one day cleaning the shavings out of the shop, while Bill was at work near by, when the voice of Mr. Jack (the man who talked through his nose) was heard, as though up in the lum- ber loft, calling Ted. “Fut the divil does yez want, onyhow?” yelled Ted. “Why don’t ye larn to talk loike a Christian ?”? “ Come up 5 ines and help me!’ cried the voice, “So I would, if Iconuld help choke yees, ye ould crank; yow’re always wanting.’’ “Go up at oncel’’ they heard Mr. Plane seem to say, down-stairs. “Do you hear that?’ asked Bill. ‘You had better go or youll get bounced,” and Ted went up into the loft, growling. : ' “where are ye’s, onyhow?? he called. “Down hore,’”? came from another direction. “Bad manners to ye, I thought ye said that it was ap here ye was. Who the blazes can tell phat a man says that spakes through his nose!” he growled, turn- tng and coming down-stairs. - “Are you coming ?? sounded up-stairs again. ‘sWhere are ye, I soy??? “Up here, I tell you.” “Oh, go ter the devil!” exclaimed Ted, returning to his former employment. And so he was continually making fun for himself ana Tommy, at the expense of some one, to say noth- ing of the tricks they used to play which came under the head of practical jokes. ? ‘They had been at their trade ‘scarcely six months when they became so competent that their boss would send them out to do jobs of repairing and the like at the houses of his customers, and it was on these occa- sions that they managed to have a heap of fun, princi- pally with the servant girls, whom they were sure to meet at the houses, \ \ " They-were doing some repairs in the kitchen of a house on Lexington avenue one day, chatting with the cook meantime, a big colored wench, and when Bill saw her sharpen her knife and begin to dress a little pig for the oven, he watched his opportunity, and the moment she began to cut it, he imitated the squealing of a pig so naturally that the wench dropped pig and knife and rushed madly out of the room. ‘Fo’ de Lord, dat pig amn’t dead yet!? she said, looking back, aiter a moment’s pause. “ What’s the matter, aunty??? asked Tommy. *‘Didn’ you heah dat pig squeal?” 9 “No, of course not. What’s the matter with you??? ““Fo’ de Lord, an’ all the saints, I heah dat pig squeal when I cut him,” said she, returning cautious- ly to the room. “Nonsense; the pig is dead and all his insides taken out. How could he squeal??? “Dat am drefful strange, chile,’? “Guess you area little oif, to-day.” “Guess I am,” she muttered, taking up and knife again. The next time she cut it if began to squeal again, and then she became so irightened that she would haye pa ER ed to do with the little porker, and so the family had no roast pig for dinner on that day. On another ocvasion they were working at a gentle- man’s house where there were several very frisky good looking Irish servant girls, with whom they soon be- came familiar and were bandying jokes with them. Now, it so happened, that on the second day every- body belonging to the house had gone out, with the exception of the servant girls, and there was more fun and nonsense going on than there was work being done, both by the servants and handsome apprentices. In the front parlor there was an elegant piano, and Bill Gunn being an excellent performer on that instru- ment, could not resist the temptation to try his hand, and $0 sat down and began to play a rollicking jig, greatly to the astonishment of the servants, “Tuck at that !’? cried one of them. ‘A carpenter playing the peanny!” “ Begorra, but he’s a darlint!” said another. ‘* Let's have a dance!’ said LADEN Gr ¢ ‘ the pig *s Whoop! so we will. Can ye jig **T guess so. Try me.?? © ** Come on, then, whoop !? Tommy “was no slouch at the business, but he was scarcely anywhere beside the girl, who could dance like an Irish fairy. But when the cook and the other girl caught the feyer and jumped in fora piece of the dance, they fairly made the house shake. “Such a heavy stepper was my Mary Ann.” “« Go it!’ cried Bill, 4s he played ee ’ ° “ Whoop her up !”? said Tommy, doing his best to kee me with his partner, 4 “ oy UD , * Whoop for the ould dirt !” 5 “ Whoop for ould Ireland !?? 2 ‘ “Come on! Yer no good,” said Tommy’s girl giv- ing him a new step and another touch of her terpsi- chorean agility. ¢ **How’s that !’ cried the cook, coming a double shuffle upon the carpet, which made the dust fly like anything. % “Good! Go it)? said Tommy. ‘ ' “ Whoop!” they all three yelled, and then they went in eyen heavier and wilder. At that momentTommy glanced up and beheld the mistress of the house standing at the parlor door, the yery picture of astonishment. * Oheese it I’? he called, and darted out of the room. But the others were so earnest in their sport that they failed to take in the situation, and it was not until the mistress strode into the room and seized Bill by the arm, that they saw it and gcattered in consternation. CHAPTER XVII. A MORE confused musician than Bill Gunn was when the mistress of the mansion where they had been at work came into the parlor and seized him as he sat at the piano, it would be useless to try to find. -And it is not often that a ‘*ball” is broken up so suddenly as that one was, when the servant girls saw that they had been caught at their pastime. They had been in high heat but a moment before, but this was a cooler. “How dare you, sit??? she demanded of the carpen- fer’s apprentice. ; ““T beg ten thousand pardons, madame; but being a lover of music, I could not resist the temptation to sit down and play a little; but it seems your servants are as fond of dancing as jam of playing.” * “T should think so—the bold, disgraceful things,?? Please excuse them, Madame; it was all my fault,’ he said, pleadingly. ; : “Go to your work at once, and regard yourself as very fortunate if 1 do not report you to your employer, Mr. Plane,’’ said she, but without the ferocity with which she had spoken at first, for the handsome face of Bill Gunn, together with his gentlemanly manners, had made a good impression upon her. So the matter passed off all right, and the young carpenters escaped the consequences of their prank, as they had done so many times before, in various places. ’ And so they mingled fun with business as they had with study, making the days and the weeks _ slip along much faster than they otherwise would haye done, «= Both Mr. Bounce and Mr. Gunn received good re- ports of their sons, and both felf-proud, In fact. be- fore they had served six months of their three years’ apprenticeship, they had forgiven them for all that agreed that they must be established in some sort ot business together, as they were such firm friends, At the end of the first year Bill went home to Boston and made a visit, but Tommy was a visitor at his home at least every week, when he was cordially re- ceived by his mother, if not by his father and the colored seryants. Put Ebenezer Crow took quite an interest. in Tom- my, now that he saw his reformation, and feeling that it was his place to compliment and encourage him, he lost no opportunity of doing so. “‘Oh, chile,” he would say, ‘{’se precious glad fo ter see yer behabin’ so wek.?? “What is that you say—didn’t I always behave my- self, Ebeneezer ?”? asked Tommy, ‘Oh, chile, you know dat de debel neber had 4 libelier messenger den you war.”? ‘‘Pshaw! What did ever I do?) . : “By golly, Tommy, I should just be glad to find out what you didn’t do.” “To who??? “To everybody.” “When ?)” ** All de time.”? * How long ago ?? “ber sinse you leab “Nursing whom ?? “Why, you mudder ob course®? **My mother ?”” “To be shuah. Who else?” **T don’t know, but perhaps know everything about me,”? “Oh, chile, you war bad,”? and old Ebenezer shook his head sadly. , “Bad what??? “ Bad boy.” “Did you see me?” 1 ‘Lord! guess I did.” - “where was 1?)” “All ober.” ““wWhere were you ?? ““ Why, workin’ fo’ your ‘Did father see me?” “Guess he just did, honey.” r , ‘Did mother see me?”? ~ “Couldn’t help it, guess,’ “And you saw me??? - . ‘Don’ I told you dat I did?” ‘© Where were you ?? “ Why, roun’ de house.?! _“ What were you doing around the house |” “Why, workin’ fur your farder,’”” : “Did father hire you 2?! “How I workif he didn’t?” é ‘what did you do ??? ? ; ‘*Dribe de hosses an’ do chores "bout de place.’? ‘What place??? py Ne “ Why, Tommy, ’pears like yor don’t know nuffin tall. De house an’ stable, ob corse.” ~ ; * And Iwas bad?” he asked, keeping up the quiz | zing, but looking as honest as a pot. “Chile, you war de wuss in de world,” ° “And you saw me??? uc “Yes, by golly, and I feel you, too,” ‘«Where did you feel of me??? ““T mean I feel your pranks?” “Did IT have pranks?” “T-should say dat you did, honey.’? “Have ’em bad??? “De wuss inde world? ; “Did they break out?” “Guess dey did.” “ Anything like the measels,??? “wuss nor dat, Tommy,” ‘Make me sick 2? “By golly, no, but it makes eberybody else sick, though.?? ay “Did you see me ??? ‘Of course I did. What am de matter wid'you!”’ “Where was 1??? 5 “Tommy, you are foolin’ wid me,” said the old darkey, tumbling to it at last, oe Me 2? SOX ES.?, “What about?” + ‘* Askin’ me dem questions all de time.’? “ Now ba « “ Yes.” ** About what?” “Tommy, you better stop.” **Stop what?” “Foolin’ wid a man old enough to be you farder You ought to be shamed ob yourself,” and ne said it as though he felt hurt. : “ What am I fooling about?” ' ‘ “Dem questions.’? ? “what questions ?’ uy “Tommy, bimeby you make me swear,” “What about?” . “ Better stop.”? “qNo, thank you, I must be going,” “Dat am de bes’ thing dat you can do.” “What ??* “To go.” “« where ?”” * Oh, go to de debil!’” exclaimed Ebenezer, rushing Gus of the room, unable to stand the quizzing any longer. gis ; Tommy laughed heartily, and the old darkey on whom he had played so many pranks, and was on the point of congratulating him on his reformation, now concluded that he was just as bad as ever. 7 And George Washington Abraham Lincoln Crow thought the same thing, for a month afterwards Tommy grappled with him for a wrestling bout, threw him easily upon his back, after which he placed a tub off nursing, chile.”? you do, you seem to farder, ob cose,”? had passed, and put their heads together regarding | of water on top of him, telling ium not to move for the what should be done with them in the future, it being | world, or he would spill it alover the floor and his
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TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. ca mother would give him an awful whalloping, and then ran laughing up-stairs, kissed his hand to his mother, and left the house whistling ‘‘ My Johnny is a Carpen- ter.) ‘The young coon saw that he could not move with- out spilling the water, and so he yelled for his moth- er, who was at work in the kitchen. o She went into the dining-room and beheld her only son in the strange position. She threw up her hands and started in alarm. . ‘“wWhat you do dar, George Washington’ Abraha ‘Vincoln Crow ?!’ she demanded. ‘* Oh, take it off, mudder!?? he cried. * What you do wid dat tub ob water on you forin dat way ??? “Take it off ??’ away, so they could never account for the deception practiced upon them. ’ z Bill caught Ted nailing down the cover of a big dry goods box in the yard one day, for Ted had to make himself generally useful about the place, and so he thought he would haye a little fun with him. ‘‘What are you nailing that box up for?’ he asked, approaching him. “Sure, because Mr. Plane bid me do it.” “Where is the tramp who was sleeping in it a few moments ago ?”? : : “Tramp! Sure I sawno tramp. Where is he?” ** Asleep in that box only a few moments ago; I was going to wake him up, but I thought the poor deyil might be tired;and so let him sleep. I hope you haven’t nailed him up in there.’? “Go ter the devil. It isn’t light yet,’’ said the sup- © posed tramp, as though annoyed. ‘ ~ Bill laughed heartily, but Ted swore. “Bad manners ter ther blackguard, I’ll soon give him all the light he wants,” said he, going into the shop fora chisel wherewith to pry off the boards he had nailed on so stoutly. “That’s a good joke on you, Ted, and I must tell the fellows about it,” said Bill, also going towards the shop. ; ‘Be the toe nails of Moses, butit won't be a verY good joke on that blackguard when I onct git tha’ © cover off,” growled Ted; ‘‘I’ll break him all ter pieces —so I will.’? Z ‘ s Bill told Tommy the racket he had started, and They stole out and, placed the chairs behind the old ladies without their observing it, so deeply occupied were they in their cunning. “Been tryin’ fot ter play circus some 30’, I spose? {tole you what if is, George Washington Abraham Lincoln, if J cotches you at any mo’.ob your circus tricks, I broke ebery hone in your black skin,” she sald, lifting the tub of water from his chest and set- _ ting it aside. “Now go on ‘bout your business or yowll tink data mule am a buzzin’ ’round you wid oeget legs,”? she added, as the boy leaped to his eet. 7 “J didn’t play no circus, mudder,” said he. “Then how you get dat water on you belly?” ‘Tommy Bounce put it dar, mudder,” “Tommy Bounce! Hab he been heah?’? «Yes, he just go,” e “Well, what you had anything to do wid him fo’? Didn't I tole you ’bout a million times dat I kill you if you don’t keep way from dat boy ?? ‘He make me wrestle.” “Who make you wrestle? Guess he couldn’t make you if you didn’t want ter. You jus’ like dat fader ob yours, He allus let dat Tommy Bounce make a fool ‘ob him, and so do you. Glong ’bout you work, now, orl warm you,” said she, returning to the kitchen. there to join In her mind with her husband and gon, that Tommy Bounce was still just as bad as ever he was. And s0 he was, although he quickly developed busi- ness qualifications of the first order when set to work at his trade. Both he and Bill Gunn were that -kind of fellows who are so made that they cannot help min- gling misehief with business or whatever they might be doing. beng soe aa But asa general thing they used to have more fun with Bill’s ventriioquism than anything else, especial- ly if they could only get Ted O’Thump, the teamster, for a victim. Infact, they had lots of fun with their fellow workmen generally, but they néver gave it } Et Begorra, but he must be a sound slaper if this ham- mering would not rouse him,” said Ted, driving in an- other nail. “Wark! I thoughtI heard him!’’ said Bill, listening anxiously. ‘ ‘Och, ye hearn the divil more loike.”’ “Did you look into the straw before you nailed the cover down?” * Tdid not.. Fut wud I luck in it for?” Why, he was all covered up in the straw. He probably came into the yard, and seeing the.box filled with straw, he regarded it as quite a luxurious bed, and so rooted himse!f into it for a snooze,? “Och, the divil!” Haven't I anything to do but hunt around in the straw for tramps? But ye bet he got out of that before I came, or I’d have’ bounced him out inter the strate wid a kick, so I wud,’ said he, driving in still another nail with a vim that showed that he meant that it should stay where he had put it. ¥ “Hark!” exclaimed Bill. ‘At what?” ‘* Don’t you hear him ?? “Divil a wanst,’’ said Ted, listening. “TY do, and I'll bet you Pave nailed him up in there.”” : Ted looked a trifle disturbed, but'said that he didn’t believe anything of the kind. * “T say!?? called Bill, knocking on the top of the box with his knuckles. ‘“ Are you there, Mr. Tramp?! “Yos, What are you making such a noise for?! came as if from the inside of the box. “Howly mother!’ exclaimed Ted. “Didn’t I tell you?” . 4 “Bad luck ter the spalpeen,”’ growled Ted. “Come, old man, yon had better turn out,’ called Bill, knocking as before, : anghing. . they went to a window where they could see Ted pry off the cover of the box. - The Hibernian was as mad as a wet cat, and wen. savagely to work, all the while growling and cursing the pur Ore tramp, Pat “Och, me foine Jad, let me lay hands on ye onct an’ ’ll bet ye a new hat that ye won’t care to take lodgings around here again, right away.” It took him quite a while to get the cover off again, but as he threw it aside, he flung away his hat, and with a wild whoop of vengeance, he dove into the straw for the purpose of snatching the tramp bald- headed, : ‘ But, of course, there was no tramp there to enjoy the luxury of being snatched. Ted was mad enough to make gure of that fact with- out loss of time, but the look of consternation which crept over his face as he stood there with his arms full of straw, was a study for an artist. ad Bill and Tommy laughed until the tears ran down their cheeks as they beheld him, end it was nearly five minutes before Bill could recover himself suficient. y to go out and interview him. . i And there he found him, standing before that box, looking bothered and wild-eyed. ~ “What have you done with him, Ted ?? he asked. “Sure there was nobody in here at all—at all.” “1s that'so? I thought heard him.” “So did I, but it wasn't so. But I wonder fut tha divil it was, onyway ?? x : “Ou, you’'re'trying to fool me.” “Begorra, but it’s fooled I am, meself.” % “T knowhow it was. You tried fo get away with the tramp.and he was too much for you,” said Bill, : ‘ ey ; “On, go ter ther divil, onyway,” said Ted) seizing the hammer and-going to work to replace the cover again, and as there seemed to be no more fun to be-
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28 ; TOMMY BOUNCE, Jr., IN COLLEGE. Squeezed out of him at that time, Bill went to his work and allowed him to continue his. ' And so time sped’along with a light step, and until three years for which they had bound themselves to learn the carpenter trade had passed, and both 'Tom- my Bounce and Bill Gunn became masters of their business, at the sametime having had quite as much ne when in college or at Mr. Slam’s school at Fir elle But neither of their fathers had any intention of keeping them at their business. They simply intend- ed that it should be a foundation on which to build a business of a different kind, although very essential for its success. ; _ Mx. Bounce and Mr. Gunn had talked the matter over, and finally reached a conclusion respecting the future of their SORE But of coursethey did not reach this conclusion without consulting their tastes,and the result was that each of the fathers put in one hundred thousand dollars, and bought out a large lumber-yard on the west side of the city, and put them into it to see how they would prosper in the business. ’ Well, they byte es first-class, both of them taking to the business kindly, and, in spite of all the deviltry there was in them, they increased the trade on every hand until they came to be regarded as the most pros- perous firm in the lumber trade. By this time they were both of age, and, as a natural _ consequence, were not slow, either of them, to fall in love and get married. ¥ But the funniest thing about it was, that they fell in love with twins, looking so much alike that it was iN greatest difficulty that they could be told apa } This gave rise to all sorts of comical combinations during their courtship, for there was a continual un- certainty as to whether Tommy was courting Bill’s girl, or whether Bill was not saying sweet things to Tommy tied a piece of blue ribbon to his girl so as to prevent these mistakes, but as the girls were quite as full of mischief as they were, they would sometimes let Bill’s girl wear it, or at other times when they called on them, they would both have the same kind of rib- pon on, and then enjoy the fun of seeing this con- usion. Then Tommy would buy his girl presents of jewelry and the like, but they would still tease them by first one wearing the trinkets and then the other, so that the two friends were continually in hot water. “This will never do,” thought Tommy. ‘I don’ care to get married to a girlsthat I cannot distinguis! from some other fellow’s,” and so he looked about for some remedy, the result being that he presented his girl with a bottle of stuff for bleaching the hair, telling her that it was a new and delightful hair tonic. But even this did not work, for the twins never had anything they did not share, and the next time Bill and Tommy called on them they found that both had become blondes, and it was just as impossible to tell one from the other as ever it had been. “Bill” said Tommy, ‘I'll toss up a cent to see whether you or I chop off an ear of our girls, s0 as to make sure of marking them or recognition.’’ “1h do it,”? said Bil, cheerfully. “But I guess,we have got something to say about this matter,’ said the girls, ~ ‘Well, 80 you have, come to thing about it;,but how are we going to mark you ?”’ ‘ll tell you what we will do,” said one of them, “T will have my ears pierced for rings.” That settled if, so long as the other did not follow suit, but as Bill’s girl did not like to wear earrings, Tommy’s had hers pierced, and he bought hera pair of magnificent diamonds; so as long as this urrange- ment was kept up they had no further trouble. Well, after a while they got married on the same [THE END.) day, and had a great double wedding, at which the families of all the parties assembled, and there was a. regular fashionable aifair had, This brings me very nearly to the end of my story, for there is little more to write. : Both of them settled down in business, and to-day the sign of “ Bounce & Gunn, lumber naerchants,” can be seen on the west side, and it is admitted every- where that they are not only doing the largest busi- ness of any concern in the trade, but that their credit is almost without question. But they still have their fun whenever an opportu. nity presents itself, as for instance: A couple of old Irish women stopped in front of their office one day and began to gossip about their neigh- bors, keeplng up a rattle of tongues for an hour or more. Finally Tommy noticed them, ‘*T say, Bill, here’s a chance to do a charitable act, Those old dames must be tired standing up there. Let us invite them in and give them chairs.?? “No, let’s carry chairs out to-them,?? said Bill, and Seizing one each they stole out and placed them behind the old ladies without their observing it, so deeply ac- cupied were they in their chinning, Tommy and‘ Hiil then stepped back into the door of their office to watch the result, But they did not have to ‘wait long before a crowd began to gather on beholding the strange and rather comical situation, and finally somebody asked them why they didn’t sit down. ‘Then they discovered the joke, and after kicking the chairs into the gutter they turned upon the jokers and gave them a tongue- lashing they will never forget; but they had their fun out of it, and that was all they wanted. So matters went on, mingling pleasure with busi- ness, as they always had done since their acquaint- ance. 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There’s happiness in it, Address Frank Tousey, publisher, 34 and 36 North Moore street, New York. P.O. Box 27380. THE SHORTYS’ SNAPS only 10 cents. The funniest book of its kind evei Hilpert Containing pide epee jokes from the Shortys. Do not ‘ail to buy it! For sale by all newsdealers, or sent to your address, poe! on receipt of 10 cents. Address Frank Tousey, publisher, 4 and 36 North Moore street, New York. P. O. Box 2730, ; SHORTY’S JOKES.—The funniest book ever published is now for sale at 40 cents per copy. Contains all the latest gags and sayings, combined with a completo list of jokes originated by “Shorty,” the famous “funny man,” and ‘Peter Pad.” It will make the gravest of people shake with laughter. Price 10 cents. Address Frank Tousey, pub- lisher, 34 and 86 North Moore street, New York. P.O, Box 2730. , MULDOON’S JOKITS.—This is one of the most original joke books ever published, and is brim full of wit and humor. It contains a large collection of songs, jokes, conundrums, etc., of Terence Muldoon, the great wit, humorist and practical jok~ of the day. Woe offer this amusing book, together with the picture of “Muldoon,” for the small sum of 10 cents. Every boy who can enjoy a good substantial joke should obtain a copy immediately. All newsdealers have it for sale, or you can obtain it. by sending 10 cents to Frank Tousey, publisher, 84 and 86 North Moore street, New York, and you will receive it by re- turn mail, post paid. i ; ‘ ON THE STAGE; OR, HOW TO BECOME AN ACTOR.—A valuable book for amateurs, containing all the information desired Ly beginners in the rofession, falso NEGRO ACTS, IRISH ACTS, DU'TOH ACTS, DIA- OGUES, SPEECHES, SONGS, JOKES, ETO., ETC. For sale by all newsdoalers, or'sent from this office on receipt of price, 1b cents. Ad- cab Tousey, 34 and 36 North Moore street, New York. P.O, Ox . THE LIE OF PETER PAD.—A new and interesting book on the life and funny adventures of the above popular author. Everybody should have one. All the fun, wit, and humor of Peter Pad is displayed in this wonderful little book. Those who have read his popular stories are entranced with them, and should not fail to obtain a copy of his life. Book and portrait 10 cents. Address Frank Tousey, publisher, 34 and 36 North Moore street, Now York. P. 0. Box 2730, SOMETHING NEW! SOMETHING NEW!—“The Boys of New York Minstrel Guide and Joke Book.” Every boy should have one. One dime—one dime—one dime. For sale by all newsdealers in the United States, or send 10 cents to Frank Tousey, publisher, 34 and 36 North. Moore street, New York. or P, O. Box 2730, and receive one by return mail. NOW LAUGH !—‘ THE LIFE OF ‘ ED.’”—Every subscriber to our papor is charmed with the humorous sketches published weekly on the fourth page of Tux Boys or Nuw Yorx. 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THE CREAT 5 CEI AWAKE LIB The Largest, C AND 2 y B y ie heapest, Handsomest, OST POPOLAR LIBRARY IN THE WORLD. _ Containing 1 Tom Brown’s School Days....By Thomas Hughes 2 The Pirate...................By Captain Marryatt 3 Adventures of Robinson Orusoe..By Daniel Defoe 4 Jack Sheppard os 5 Sindbad the Sa ves 6xPeter:‘Simplessvereveee ee seas Cap Marryatt _ 7 Pantomime Joe; or, An Orphan Boy’s Career. 8 Snarleyyow; or, The Dog-Fiend........ By Captain Marryatt 9 Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp.:.. LOLEOON SACK caweida puts wesccssecssece Pcenett 11 Tommy Bounce—comic.............By Peter Pad 12 Shorty; or, Kicked into Good Luck—comic.. : By Peter Pad 13-The Deviltg Diamond; or, The Fortunes of - Richard. @@he Rayen’s Crest..........00-+0. 14 Shorty in’ Luok......................By Peter Pad | 15 Dick Dauntless, the Boy Privateer............ By J. J. G. Bradley 16 “ Skinny,” the Tin Peddler—comic.By Tom Teaser 17 Dick Turpin, the Highwayman.... 18 Guiliver’s Travels................ 19 Ali Baba; or, The Forty Thieves....+......0. '20 The Mulcahey Twins—comic......By Tom Teaser -21 Jacob Faithful; or, The Adventures of a Waterman peeeeeveees BY Captain Marryatt 22 The Young Engincer....... . 23 Oliver Twist. é 24 The Image af his Father.....,.By Horace Mayhew 25 Gentleman George, the King'of the Road...... i ” By J. J. G. Bradley 26 Gentleman George and his Pal. By J. J. G. Bradley 27 The Dead Boxer...........-.By William Carleton 28 Harry Hal@iis. «dea. cegeescsedcesssscsscceves 29 One of the Boys of New York; or, The Adven- tures of tommy Bounce—comic...By Peter Pad 30 The King of Diamonds.........By J. J. G. Bradley 31 The Four Knaves.............-By J. J. G, Bradley $2 The Pirate Doctor; or, The Extraordinary Career of 8 New Work Physician............ 33 Jonathan Wild.By the Author of “Jack Sheppard” 84 The Pirate Ohief; or, The Ontter of tle Ocean. By an Old Salt 35 The Smuggler of St. Malo...By Sylvanus Cobb. Jr. 36 Little Mac, the Boy Engineer.....By Ralph Royal 87 Josephine; or, The Lady of the Guif.......-.-- By J. H. Ingraham 38 Sea-Dog Charlie; Her eee ctesseuveecis oeBY Ghatles Dickens y or, The Adventures of a Boy ~ Orseeae tov seeceeesBy W. I. James, Jr. $9 Paul Jones.........:....... By Alexander Dumas 40 The Hangman of Newgate......... Gs ticesc By the Author of “ Jack Sheppard ”” 41 The Black Mask; or, The Mysterious Marriage By Bernard Wayde 42 Dot Boy Fritz—comic.... ....By Gus Williams / 43 The Demon of the Dee; bove and Be- Neath the: Seaisn . sewwians swe ¢idinees odaemewe By the Author of ‘Starboard Jack 44 Mark Grayham; or, The Boy Wanderers of the Desert... ...................By H. 0. Emmet 45 Starboard Jack; or, The Nimble Reefer of the School-Ship ‘‘ Mercury ’’........By Orrin Goble 46 San Francisco Bob..........By H. K. Shackleford 47 Tom, Dick and the ——; or, School Days in New York—comic...... $4 Captain Hawke; or, The Life ofa Highwayman _ 65 The Boss Boy..By the Author of ‘Teddy O’Lynn”” _ 66 Shorty Junior; or, The Son of his Dad—comic ; : A By Peter Pad * 67 The Pirate Schooner...........By J. H. Ingraham 58 The Gold Hunters; or, The Search for the : Mountain Mine........By George Manville Fenn _ 59 The Pirates of America........By J. H. Ingraham 60 The Pirate Outter...........By Midshipman Hasy 61 The Black Pirate....... ; ; 62 Captain Kidd; or, The y Pirate of Hell Gate...” READ THE FOLLOWING LIST: 64 Three-Fingered Jac! 65 The Sea-King...2...... 66 Life in the Red Brigade.. 67 Billy Bo’swaim....0 vs... 2. Oot 68 Mulligan’s Boy—comic...... 69 The Wild Robber............ Ye 35 72 The Assassin's DOOM. .......cescecovccesseeces By the Author of ‘‘ The Death Ship.” 78 The Pirates of the Shoals.......By J. H. Ingraham 74 The Robbers of the Rhine........By Colonel Blood 75 Jack Harkaway’s Schooldays.............+ ue 76 Harkaway Afloat..........c0ccsetececeees 77 Harkaway Among the Savagés.......,.. 78 Harkaway’s Escape............. 79 Harkaway at Oxford. .))... cece kl ec eee ee 80 Harkaway and the Black Band, 81 Harkaway and the Brigands. 82 Harkaway and the Spy... 83 Harkaway Trapped...... 8, Harkaway and the Italians; at ante ee nenene or, The Brigand’s OOM IT Sein svecesscaseencnsccdectsevederdeeve 85 Dick Lightheart at Sea...J..... ce ceeesececees 86 Dick Lightheart Around the World........... 87 Dick Lightheart in LONdON......sessseeeeeeeee 88 Dick Lightheart’s Victory.......c.sesceseccsee 89 The poe of Mystery; or, Adventures Under stew eeee ttt eneee 91 Claude Duval; or, The Dashing Highwayman. 92 Claude and His: Pals... vcs sscecsaeescssccscus VSSDUvaland Dickicssncaccscuawesssgceuvenssee’ OC OClAndGin WRX decstouacidecedscevedennes swe ‘95 Duval Betrayed........ OOo 2 eet 96 Claude on the Scaffold........... : 97 Ths Highwayman’s Ride..... 98 Claude Duval’s Dead Shot.........seeeseseeees 99 Bonnie Black Bess; or,Claude Duval’s Charger. 100° OlANAG Im: Ja reese. Mabe cneceelcwcleesicee 101 Duval’s Life Struggle.......... 102 Claude and the Nuns,.......... 108 Duval in the Cloister. .... 104 Claude and the Lady..... 105 Duval on Hand...:....... 106 Claude and the Spy.... 107 Duval in Chains...... 115 Duval in Peril...:.... 116 Clande at Bay.......s+.05 117 Duval and Luke.......+.- orient Peeeee eee eee eee eee eee a, 129 The Young Tragedian......... 130 Clarence Rhett; or, The Cruis 131 Paddy Perea the Trish Brigade. 8 of a Privateer, Ned Buntline or, The Drummer-Boy of h Tales of the Sea, Indian Stories, Mexican Romances. and. Adventures im all parts of the orld ¢ ; or, The Adventures of a Young Reporter....2...1/... ..By Philip Allison 187 The Mysterious Messenger; or, ‘The Sécret of the Three Black Stars..........By Hart Barnard 188 Burt, the Detective; or, A Sleuth-Hound on the Track. ......., y Police-Captain Howaré 189, ‘12; or, Tracked to Death....ostsve.sasecaes FU CY tt eee eee eee eee er rey Boy .. 148 The Sea Fiends... zB. 155 Out with Stanley; or, Young meriod in ATTICA. eve seeeeeees ..By Col. James Blair 166 Mad Maurice; or, The Crazy Detective........ , “By Dennis O'Sullivan 157 Shorty and the Count; or, The Two Great Un- mashed—comic,....By the Author of * Shorty 158 The Whanf Boys of New York.. oars TS9SBig- Silas seo ones cae c 160 Nip and Flip; or, Two ofa Kind...../.......- By the Author of “Skinny, the Tin Peddler * 161 The Four Jacks; or, The Dog Detective...2.0. , ; By Pau! Turk’. 162 The Miser of Harlem; or, The Old House by the Bridge...............By Col. Robert Lennox 163 Young Harkaway and the Pirates 164 Harkaway’s Triumph.... . 165 Harkaway on Magic Island. 166 Ferret, the Little Detective 167 The Man of Many Faces. 168 flarkaway’s Peril...... 169 Harkaway to the Rescue. 170. Harkaway, the Magician. .............. 171 Reckless Rob; or, The Mystery of Palm Island ? By Ralph Ranbvie 172 Luke Lander, the Lion Hunter; or, The Boy Adventurers in Africa,.....By Gol, J. M. Travers - 178 Rob Rattler, the Scapegrace..By Col. J. M. Travers 174 The Dwarf King; or, The Adventures of Harry Bluff. +.) «++. ..-./.+..,..2, By Col. J, M, Travers’? 175 The Gallant Middy; or, Captured ea By Richard R. Montgomery 176 Harkaway, the Avenger...............-- |177 The Rival Crusoes... ........By Harry ‘Ainsworth ‘178 Harkaway in Australia sss.......0..0e00----- 179 Harkaway and the Oonyicts....../..s:- 180 Harkaway and the Bushrangers.....--- 181 Chased Around the World.....+.....+-+ : 182 The Detective’s Mistake.......-.+seeessesenees 184 Chips and olin Ohin Among the Mormons... 4 and ©) mong the tite . Sanintiesaas 185 Chips and Chin Chin’s Adventures eIn- 9 / duane Lei ada cael BY ROter-Paat 186 Chips and Chin Chin in Omahe......By Peter Pad 187 Chips and Chin Chin in St. Louis. .- -By Peter Pad 188 Chips and Chin Chin in New York....By Peter Pad seseseeeee,+eBy Philip Allison | 189 Jack HAWICY.. 06s sevecseessereeerecsseteeeecs é
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. ' 209 Harry Halsey... THE FIVE-CENT 196 The Two Baston Boys....... 191 Frank Martin, the Young Rajah... 192 The Locksmith’s Apprentice..... 193 The Ts and the Charmed 194 The Bed Circle... 195 The Nemesis; or, Tracked to their Doom..-... 196 Tom ‘rw . sked Messenger. -206 The Prairie Phantom. 207 The Young Engineer. 208 Fighting Against Odd 210 Donneli OrGig.....» . 211 The Burgiars of New Yo 212 Jerry O’Keefe’s Crimes. 213 The Dare-Devii Detectiv z14 Game to the Death. 215 Kickappo Joe.........- 216 The Struggle for a Mine.. 217 Stump; or, ‘Little, But, ‘Ol 218 Stump ‘at School—comic.../. 219 Stump at Sea—comic.......... Shee 220 Stump and Jack Hawser—comic. +... Getwedee 221 Stump's Rackets Below Decks—comic . 222 Stump and His Chums Homeward Bound— 226 The Brotherhood of Death.. 227 Tricks; or, ‘Traveling with ay ariety Show. 228 Under the Gallows. 229 Adrift on a Floating ES 230 Fred Hazie .. 232 Doonie Crandall...... 233 Meta, the Girl Crusoe... 234 Teddy Dovleiv.. sis. 285 A Trip to the Center of the Barth. 236 Drifting Harry....s.......... 237 Rory, the Smasher, - 238 An Srish Boy's Luck. 239 Behind the anh ae 4 240 The Boy Convict... 241 Tornado Tim....... 242 The Boy Avenger 243 Jack, the Joker. . 244 The Irish Robber’s Apprentice. 245 Fighting His Way......... 2: 246 A Knight of the Brush . 247 Fritz, the Tumbler...... 248 Jron-Knuckled Ted... 249 Dare-Devil Dick .......... 250 The Dock-Boy of New York. 251 Captain Oartouche.......... 252 The Gipsy poe Vengeance, 253 The Boy Miners........-... Are es 254 Water-Duck Jim........ 255 The King cf the Swimming Gang. 256 The Flying Ship of the Pacific... 257 The Adventures of Harry Franco. mic. 266 An English Boy in Americ: comic. 207 Scotty, the Terrier. ...0........... 272 Highfalutin’ Jim.. 273 Oharley Lance.......; 274 A Search fora rhe ape Man. 275 Commodore R wae ) 276 Teddy O’Lynn . 279 Blue Grass Bob, 280 The Wiid Rider o OK as Fe eee 281 Shoo-Fly; or, Nobody’s Moke-comien baat 282 Shoo-Fly at School—comic.............. / 283 Shoo-Fly in Love—comic........ 284 Shoo-Fiy, the Gymnast—comic,... 286 Sharkey, the Young Robber of the’ West. 286 Dashing Bob... } gat Johnnie Burgoo 288 Reliable Joe.... 229 The Yankee Ola 290 Midshipman Ned: 291 The Oruise of the Old Tronsides. 292 Jack Feeney.....iss.....2.0. ance 293 'The Young irish Brigans...' 204 Lance, the Lion. ..s..+-060- AO © 295 on Blue....s.+s 206 Wree-and-Easy Ned .... a9 True Blue; or, Right at ‘Last 298 That Boy Of OULSreceee eens 209 ‘Tom on His Muscle.....-.... 300 Bob Short; or, One of Our Boy cornice $01 Perey of the Strong ATM vies e6 802 Jack Manly; or, On CHETT ASS wat. are tee elle WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY-Continued. 303 The Freebeoters of California,.........+. 304 Captain Merrick and His ues 305 Nero, the Hunchback... 306 The Bell- Ringer of Trir 307 Harry Harley. > 808 The Arctic Queens’ 809 Harry Fitzroy... 310 The Heart of Oak. . 311 The School on the Sea... 312 The Golden Island....... 313 Among the Savages......... 314 The Specter Schoolboy, and other stor 815 The Headsman of Old Loud. ridge. 316 Harold Forrester.....-.... 817 Mat o’ the Mist 318 Eveline Duke $19 Mark Bradley 320 Driven to the $21 Routing the Re 322 Tom Fox.... 323 Adventures o 824 Richard Savage 825 The Mystery of 826 Double-Six. $27 The Domin $28 Gipsy Bess........ $29 The Queen of the | 330 Rodolf, the Traitor. 381 The Boy Cavalie: 334 The Prairie Witeb i 335 The Hunters of the Silver Trail. 336 Traveling With Barnum....,. 337 Three Dashing Hussars........-..+22eeeseenes 338 Pat O’Corker; or, Always to ee Front......5.5 889 The Diamond Eye,....... pace pened CEO ee 340 Jack of the Nayal Brigade... Rens $41 The Zulu’s Daughter... Y ATPL TCL EE DO $42 The Haunted House at Deadman’ 's Corner....- 843 Sir Guy’s Secret............... Beeges Satara 344 The Fortunes of an Acrobat-....... 345 For the Green Flag of Old Ivelaud...... 2... 346 Kathleen O'Shaughnessy ..s.....-.+++-css eee smd $47 Tom, the Midshipman.................. “2, 348 Out With Captain Cook........ Iemesnee eas 349 Every Inch a Sailor, .cc...2...2..ee0+ ¢ 850 Ralph, the Light Dragoon...... ...... t 851 The Brothers in ArmS.......-.:....- 352 Jack of Cheapside...... 353 The Green Banner of isla 354 The Colonél’s Daughter...... 355 Walter’s Secret........... 356 The Outlaws of Berkeley Forest 357 Redspear, the Outlaw............. 858 The House of a Hundred Terrors . 359 Oswald, the Unknown......-.......- 360 Adventures of a Free Lance......... 861 The Treacherous Knight.......... 862 Young Jack Harkaway and His Boy Tinker. 363 Tinker’s Man Bogey....... acct ececcp te ge 864 Young Harkaway in Spain ..... Us 365 Young Harkaway in Turkey...... 866 Mole Among the Mussulmans....... 867 Young Harkaway and the Arabs,....... 868 Young Harkaway and the Counterfeiters. 369 The Secret of the Traitor’s Gate......... 370 The Waif of the Tower................ 871 Ralph Wildhawk................ceeeesee 72 The Brigand Chief... ........ sleeecceeseses 873 Marco Bravo....s.cesescesce leacceeceeece 874-Zara, the GipSy.s. ss... cece cecucrcencce Cavan 375 The Servian Spy...-++.00s20s0. aKagedtos Waites 876 Sword and Cimeter..... me sates Sempatets ees se 3777 AOBM BAGS eas eho c caer cece toedie ceeseedweciee 878 The Archers of Inglewood........-.-+-..+++-+: 379 The Knight of the Red Cross........... Cer oe 880 Jack-o’-the-Cudgel.........s... ie 881 Croquard, the Free Lance. 382 The Fair Maid of Kent.. 883 Dick, the Brewer ....... 884 The Oxford and Cambridge Eights... 885 The Wild Huntsman...... : 886 Tom Mansfield, the Smu, 387 The Sunken ‘Treasure. 888 The Slave’s Revenge 889 Cris Carrol, the Scou 890 Phil Rayleigh, a Londo: 891 The Knight of the Iron Han 892 Tom Lester: 893 Bicycle Bob.. $94 Mark Darrell. 895 Osear Merivale; or, 396 Tom Oakland........ 397 The Mad Alchemist; ‘or, “Mysteries Unfolded: Dr. H. M. Jordan By 398 Worm, the Pittsburgh Detective. By An Old Detective ! 899 Rob Racket, the Scourge of the Cowboys..... . 400 GipsyDick; or, Born a Detective. By Seth Huntingdon |. 401 The Red River Pilot..... ..-By Paul Braddon 402 Gatana, the Robber’s Daughter. By Seth Huntingdon 403 Detective Sketches....... By a New York Detéctive 404 The Boy Scouts of the Sierras-By Seth Huntingdon 405 The Heir of Longworth......... Vaeiesict sawn 406 A Ghost in the Mirror, and other stories....... By Allyn Draper 407 Strange Stories of Maniacs....... By Dr. R. Jackson ‘and Orrin Goble 408 The Skeleton’s Legacy; or, The ron cot of the Isla ON... es eesereeeeress-+-BY Col. J. L. Trueman 409 The Pirate’s Son...............-By J.T. Brougham 410 The Sount. Revenue Detective: or, Among the Moonshiners.........62.65 By” a Retired Detective 411 Little Hall, the Goy Engineer, by Capt, Will Dayton 2 412 Captain Hurricane; or, The Waif of the Wreck. By Allan Arnold A418 Towpath Ted........secesveees ...- By J. M. Bradon 414 The Ghost of Paul Priestiy; or, The Mystery of Haggard Hollow.......... .By James Greenwood 415 The Cruise of the Beauty..By Captain Will Dayton 416 Joe Jordan, the Young Inventor......... Aree 417 Ebenezer Grow—comic.......... +s. ° 418 Charley Charlton, the Young Magician. Hn Ae: By Col. J. M. Travers 419 Gorilla George; or, A New York Boy in Africa. By J. L. Freeman 420 Stuttering Mose; or, The say Scout of the Rey- OLULON s', Liaw ale wines: ++ s BY Gougras J, L. Johnston 421 The Kingdom in the SOa ciuwseesen 422 Lighthozse Lem; or, The siysiery of Dead- man’s Reef........... By An Old Sea Captain 423 The Search for the “ iiidas 3 or, Treasures From the Deep . - Sas) Gerald Fleming 424 The Young Explorers... apt. Will Dayton 425 Little Nugget, the Pride of Tenino: By Major J. ‘Anderson 426 The Young /ronaut..,..........By Professor Wise 427 The Boy Trapezist.. .By a Former Professional 428 Prairie Phil; or, The Panther of the Platte. Bie Harry Rockwood 429 The Green Caps..... . a U.S. Detective 430 Hollow Roost; or, The Traitor. Gute. pete teen eees y Morris Redwing 431 ‘The Grimsdale pies and other stories......... By a Physician 432 Lost in Africa; ‘or, The Adventures of Two Young Castaw ays. »-...». by Samuel T. Johnston 483 Denver Dan and His Mystic Band..By ‘**Noname” 434 Shorty in Search of His Dad—comic..By Peter Pad 435 The Blasted Pine; or, Three Boy Sconts........ By Capt. Will Dayton 436 Denver Dan and the Road Agents..By ‘*‘ Noname” 437 The Freebooter’s Secret......... By J.T. Brougham 438 Sawdust Charlie, the Pet of the Ring....... By an Old Ringmaster 439 Denver Dan and the Counterfeiters. By *\Noname”? 440 The Train bag or, A piety of the James oys teieat » By: J. R. Musick 441 Ned Owen; or, ‘The’ My ‘tery ofa Missing Ship. By Capt. Will Dayton 442 Denver Pan uae or, The Outfaw’s Tri- umph .. ../J.... By “*Noname?? 443 The Girdle of “Gold; “or, “The Counterfeiter’s Daughter... By Morris Redwing 444 The Treasure ‘Gave; or, Run tolarth. By a Traveler 445 Denver Dan, the Sherith, We Byes Noname’ 446 Long Paw, the Mysterious Hunter....By Kit Clydo 447 A Yankee ‘Boy in Africa 2... By Percy B. St. John 448 Black and Blue; or, Nick W nharion on the War- path By Harry Rockwood 449 Ivan and Ismail; or, Scouts of Plevna’ en). By Don Jenardo 450 Denver Dan’s Peril; or, The Outlaw’s Ruse,... By.‘ Noname?? 451 The True Life of Billy the Kid..... By Don Jenardo 452 The Russian Spy.............. By a U.S, Detective 458 The Creole Brothers......By Colonel J. M. Travers 454 The Castaways; or, ‘The White King of the Atlantic......... eae ouciseme an cae By Don Jenardo 455 Denver Dan to the Rescue; or, The Mountain- : eer’s Stratagem............ vee e BY *Noname”? 456 Condemned; or, Number 709............ By Richard R. Montgamery 457 The James Boys as Guerrillas....By D. W. Stevens 458 Billy Bangs’ Schooldays...By ate Will Dayton 459 The Mad Doctor......2........005 By Paul Braddon 460 Zola, the Old Trapper’s Daughter. By RT. Emmet 461 The Shortys’ Trip Around the World—comic. By Peter Pad 462 The James Boys and the Vigilantes. By D.W. Stevens © 463 Buffalo Bill’s Chum...... .By Colonel Ralph Fenton 464 Denver Dan and His Chums......:.By ‘‘ Noname’’ 465 The Old Magician......By Corporal eee Rattler 466 The James Boys and the Ku-Klux.By D.W. Stevens 467 The Brother’s Crime..........By Perey B. St, John 468 Molly Bland, the Detective; oe The Hunt for the Murderers. seseesecessereeby J, T. Brougham 469 The James Boys in California.....By D. W. Stevens 470 eee 3 Tim; or, ee With a Circus— com +s.s+«-By Peter Pad ay Mat oF the ‘Mountain; “or, “The “Struggle of Des- : perate Men...... de ees RCSA LION Draper 472 The Picador of Chapultepec.......By Don Jenardo 473 The Lost Island; or, The Cruise of the “Car. OUNG2 aeecesa bees saves By Colonel J. M. Travers 474 The James Boys as “iyainwreckers.BY. D.W. Stevens 475 The Maxwell Brothers; or, The Chase of a SCASON...... 5.2. ce ceee es cedeenceeees By Kit Clyde 476 Stuttering Sam—comic...............By Peter Pad 477 The net et or, The pererey of the Beaver Da teeseveveseesseeee By Captain Will Dayton 478 Pawiamon Bill; “or, The Red Cross of the Chey- enne.. 2 Sate etenk ByDanyerardo 479 The James Boys in Minnesota. . -By D. W. Stevens 480 Buck Bidwell, the Boye Slayer of the Pawnees. By Lientenant EB. H. Kellogg 481 Toby, the Spy; or, The Russian Conspiratars of Paris.......-++0..5-+......By & Parisian Detective 482 The James Boys as Highwaymen. By D, W, Stevens 483 Denver Dan in New York..........: By “ Noname” 484 Tommy Bounce, Jr.; or, A Chip of the Old Block—Comlc...... 0... sseseseus |. By Peter Pad 485 pyashed Ashore; or, ace da a Strange : Harry Rockwood Lanc¢ 486 Gaia: Ghubbs at College. ‘iy Cap Aptain Wiil Dayton 487 The Irish Clande Duval.By poral Morgan Rattler 48t The James Boys’ Longest Chase,.By D. W. Stevens
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THE GREAT FIVE-GENT WIDE AWAKE LIBRA The Largest, Cheapest, Handsomest and Most Popular Library in the World. READ THE FOLLOWING LIST OF THE LATEST ISSUES PUBLISHED ; Nes 489 Fair-Weather Jack; or, Life in the Arctic ONS psi see aie tea By Albert J. Booth 490 The James Boys in Mexico......By D. W. Stevens 491 Old Fox; or, The Mystery of the Trunk........ By @ Parisian Detective 492 The James Boys at Cracker Neck.By D. W. Stevens 493 Silvershof, the Sport from Sacramento........ b By Kit Clyde 494 ae pues Slayer; or, The Terror of the Chip- +++..-+-By J. G. Bradley 495 The Trish Ciaude Duval asa Rebel......... By Corporal Morgan Rattler 496 Astray in the Clouds........ By @ Retired Aeronaut 497 The Shortys Married and Settled Down—a se- quel to all the Shorty stories—comic..:...... + By Peter Pad 498 The Tree of Death..............By an Olid Trappor 499 The Twin Detectives; or, True to an Other., y Ralph Royal 600 William Tell, the Dead Shot of the Wost Boek By Harry Enton 501 Trapper Duke; or, The Female Avenger........ By James D. Montague 602 Leon, the Outlaw; or, The Avenger of the Death Pass....-..: +++++--By James D, Montague 603 Tommy Bounce, Jr., in College—comic........ By Peter Pad 504 Around the World; or, Fighting to Win........ By aoe, & Hart 505 Out With the “Jeannette”; or, Two Years Among Icebergs.......... by a Herald Reporter 606 Captain Tom Drake; or, The eons Privateers By H. ©. Emniet 507 Fred Ford; or, Life at eee neues “th ca) By coy Will Dayton 508 pe dtl) the Boy With the Big Mouth— Cntr. By Commodore Ah-Look. 509. How and ‘Arrow Jack, the Indian aoe 5 y Kit Clyde 610 Arctic Phil, the Bear-Slayer of the Northen Seas 1... By Alex. Armstrong "611 Fred Baxter, the Wild Horse We Miwa bu dele y J. M. Travers 612 The Brookfield Bank Robbers. a By D. W. Stevens 613 The Border Bandits..... ...By James D. Montague §14 The James Boys and Timberlake.By D. W. Stevens 415 Fighting Joe; or, The Game Man of the Plains. By Kit Clyde 616 Invincible Bill....-......By Alexander Armstrong 617 Skeleton Gulch; or, Cap*ain Texas and His Band of Vultures........+.- By J. R.. Scott 618 The Irish Claude Duval as a Privateer....... By Corporal Morgan Rattler 619 The Woiverine; or, The Count’s Treachery. «.. By a pees Detective comic. ris §23, Northwoods'Tom, “the “Athiete 524 Only a Cabin-Boy; or, Saved by Gr thee. ene By Harry Rockwood ; 625 Astray in Affica.................By Walter Fenton $26 Tiger Ted..........+.. 2 By ee Armstrong 627 The James Boys’ Cave....... .-.By D. W. Steyens 628 The Black Mask; or, The Vow ofSilence....... By T. W. Hanshew 529 Son’-west Fred...r-.....+2+++s0++++, By Kit Clyde 530 Bob Hollick, the ‘Yankee Notion Drummer; a sequel to Bob Rollick; or, What Was ie Born For??—comic. . . By Peter Pad 631 The James Boysas Bank Robbers. By D.W. Stevens 682 The Black Hercules........By Colonel J. M. Travers 633 Fireman Dick; or, The Pride of Number 9,.... By Janes D. Montague 634 The Shortys Out For Fun—comic.....By Peter Pad 635 Red,River Bill, the Prince of Scouts.By J. P. Scott 536 ee Express Ned, the Prince of Boy Kn- ...By Horace Appleton 537 he Sh Shortys” “Christmas and New Year's at Home—comic........+..-++++..+.+-By Peter Pad De Not Fail to Purchase One from Your Newsdealers, as They All Have Them on Hand; 538 The James Boys’ Brides.........By D. W. Stevens 539 The Spies of the Delaware........... By Kit Clyde 540 Denver Dan, Jr., and His Band of Deadshots.. By ‘““Noname”’ 541 The Steam set of the Plains; or, The Terror of the Wes! -By Harry Enton 542 On Deck; or, "The Boy Piot of Takes Erie i223 2: By Howard De Vere 548 From Pole to Pole; or, The Sailor Boy Avenger. By Horace Appleton 444 Dick Wright and His Band of Cannibals.... By J. R. ‘Scott 545 mae Hor Captain; or, The Search for a Missing aware .By Alexander Armstrong 546 Pickle and Tickle; or, “Mishaps and Mischiefs— - stvakeseicis twehcveteies guees By Peter Pad 547 Fort H Hayes or, Black Eagle, the Bee, es By Don Jenardo 548 Noiseless Nat; or, Always Just Where He's Wanted..................By James D, Montague 549 The Secrets Under the Sea............ By Kit Clyde 550 The James Boys’ Band...... .....By D. W. Stevens 651 Sam Sharpe at School . 552 Privateer Tom—a sequel to pe Tom DYAke ors ecse cme -+.+--.By H. C. Emmet 553 Frank Reade and His Steam Horse. By Harry Enton 554 Billy the Bootblack; or, The Trump Card LASt ...es.eeesseesseseeses-eBy Harrigan & Hart 555 The Rival Scouts......-ss--+-s+++ .-By J. R. Scott eres Ca: tain Will Dayton b 556 The Coral Cave; or, Paul Philip’s Cruise...... By Horace Appleton 557 The Army Scout; or, The Mysteries of as West. By Kit Clyde Crim: nie .By Horace Appleton 562 The Mad Man of the North Pole; or, The noe Mazeppa of the Arctic Seas........ ‘By Kit sy de 563 Extree Nick,the New York Newsboy.........- By Commodore At-Look 564 Oath-bound; or, The Jack of Spades. By J. R. Scott 565 Ouster’s Last Shot; or, The Boy Trailer ofthe Little Horn......0s+ss-.BY Colonel J. M. Travers 566 Gassy Hyde; or, The Fire-Boy Fiend o: Phila- delphi... .secsesyeees By Corporal Morgan Rattler 567 Fred Hazard, the Star of the Circus By Horace Appleton 668 Coonskin Kit, the Dashing Government Scout. By Kit Clyde 569 Denver Dan, Jr., and the Renegade. By “‘Noname”? 570 Billy Badger; or, The Mysterious Unknown of the Bank Robbers’ Band. By James D. Montague 571 The James | Boys’ Fate... + ....By D. W. Stevens 572 Mail-Car Ned; or, Falsely Accused...... dee er By Alexander Armstrong 573 The Maniac Pirate. ssereasiie «By Horace Appleton 574 Smokestack Bob, the Hero of the Rail.By J. R. Scott 575 Nimble Nip; or, ‘the Imp. of the School—comic -.- By Tom Teaser 576 King Morgan, the@error of the Seas. TPO By Alexander Armstrong 577 The Convict’s Oath; or, The Prisoner. ofgvan Dieman’s Land ..........By Jawes D. Montague 678 The Serpent Queen; or, The Mysterious Night- Riders of Georgia. Sake rewee “++s25.2.By Kit Clyde 579 The Fortune Hunters; or, Two Yankee Boysin Australia...... aele eee AL Alexander Armstrong 580 The Fatal Star.. «By Horace Appleton 681 The Bootblack’s Plot; ‘or, ‘The Mystery of a ~ Night. By J. R. Scott 582 Huron Harry; or, The Haunted Skilf....2..0-. By James D. Montague 583 Doomed; or, The Secret League of Boston... -- By James D. Montague 584 The Maniac Rider; or, The Mystery of Hawkes- WOOd GTange....- esses sees +e Ube Be Appleton 585 The Gipsies’ Den......+: 005. on Receipt of Enices 5 Cents. +BY Kit Glyde y 586 Matt Merry; or, The Life oh the School..-..... By Captain Will Dayton 687 The Phantom Avenger: oh Y pick Darling-in Montana ....2......., By ‘Alexander Armstrong 588 Hugo, the Texan; 12) “The Demons of the (AlaMOc.-4s0akFs -s.++By J. R. Scott 589 Lost on the Desert; ‘or, “phe Guide's" Treachery. By James D, Montague 590 The Avengers’ League es 2 +. By “‘Noname *” 591 th Caos Wavye’s’? Last Cruise; or,'Phe Pirates’ be Sererirer err rere or esl pe as -By Kit Clyde or, The Ronnadheads and EWC ED ORGS By Horace Appleton 593 The Pirate Hermit; or, The Waif's Legacy...... By Alexander Armstrong or, The area Trails .. By J. R. Scott » BU’s Last TOW cave cctacesattnapoe +seeee. BY Kit Clyde 507 Frank Reade and his Steam Team.......... 598 Cheeky and Chipper; or, AproURI Thick and TTI see siameccies Cumv alee y Commodore Ah-Look 599 Dead aan’s Pond; or, ‘the black Demon of the BIGITaS Nyeevascc ve cae ke tend By Horace Appleton 600 The Tiger of the Seas; or, Forced to bea Pirate By Alexander Armstrong 601 Harry O’Malley, the Young ee Invincible... By Sergeant pees 602 Arkansaw Bill, the Indian Spy.......By J. R. Scoit 603 The King of the Dee OD ..vesecsseeesee BY Kit Clyde 604 Little Death Shot; or, the Gold-hunter’s Ghost. By James D. Montague 605 The Magic Mirror................-By Don Jenardo- 506 Old Rube, the Ranger..... -«iysBy J. R. Scott 607 Frank Reade and His Steam Tally-Ho.... id sinters 608 Out with Barnum....By Lieutenant E. H. Kellogg 609 Storm King Dick; or, The Boy Adventurers... . By Captain Will Dayton 610 Frank Burham, the King of the Cowboys..... } By Kit Olyde 611 Hildebrandt Fitzgum; or, My Quiet Little Cousin—comic .......... siege Teaser 612 Si Swift, the Prinee of Trap, By James tague 613 The Hyena Hunters; or, In the, Wilds of Attica 2 By Harry Rockwood 614 The Phantom Pirate; or, The Fatal Oath... . By Alexander Armstrong 615 The Young. Fenian Chief... 616 Among the Crocodiles; or, Kayentnres in India Harry. Rockwood -Mustangers y Marline Manly ++s,-.By Kit Clyde 619 The Shortys Ont Fishing—c! C...-.By Peter Pad 620 Coal See ‘Tom; or, Fighting the Moly. Ma- quires <<) asesae .By Sergeant GrDonnett 621 The Captain of the Nine; or, Always a Leader... 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