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...there is around us, and in all our lives stuff enough to make good stories. And if there is not this material, we can never do much with what we borrow. A fellow need not necessarily confine himself to Adirondack deer hunts and the like; but almost any ordinary series of events may be idealized into something worth printing. We must take out of the mass of ephemeral, and comparatively insignificant happenings, the things lasting and significant. In other words, we must put into our work the touches of nature which make our characters alive, and not cunningly painted figures...
...book-case"; the swarthy Spaniard with cigars, "smuggled, senor," and strong enough at that to knock down and annihilate any daring customs officer; these are familiar callers. The latest character to appear is the young man who has a fine set of surveying instruments in pawn, and wishes to borrow money enough to redeem them. As all his former friends have failed him he wishes to add you to the circle of his acquaintance and offers to reimburse any small loan you may feel inclined to make, out of the proceeds of his future surveys...
...eighty-eight shell met with a serious accident day before yesterday. The freshmen will probably borrow the seniors shell for the rest of the year...
...College Library with its wonted promptitude in adjusting itself to beneficial suggestions, has had slips of paper printed, serving as book marks, which request those who borrow books in great demand, to return them in one or two weeks, as the case...
...days later I take the pains to borrow Snodkins' note-book, and study well the pages between the hard-worn covers. First, I am pleased to find some writing, "Hollis Holworthy Snodkins, '85, 57 Mattworthy, Camoridge, Mass.," all of which doesn't seem to me to be very important, until I have discovered it repeated on most of the subsequent pages. At times it is mostly "Snodkins, '85," a phrase terse, but so full of meaning! Or, again it is "Snodkins, '85," with, conspicuously near, a reference to "p. 199," or "p. 299." I look up the first reference...