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...maids! They might as well have told me to hire a howling dervish. Just as I was going off for a day's sport, too! I think mother might have hit on some other time to get sick. Some people are confoundedly inconsiderate, any way. [Notices screen.] Holloa! they cage the animals, do they? [Peeks through blind.] By Jove, there's one of 'em now, I do believe. Wish the old antique downstairs would brace, so I could have the thing through with. Wonder if I had n't better begin operations at once, and have the agony over...
After this, on the morrow, he with many more was placed in a large cage, and given ink and pens and paper, and bid to write. And he did write, but it was all wrong. The keepers of these cages glided up and down before them noiselessly, and watched the inmates. Then Lighthead turned to a wight next him and inquired, "Why do they peer at us so carefully?" "They are afraid that we may spring a crib upon them," replied the lad; but ere Lighthead could go farther in his quest of knowledge, one of the watchers did approach...
Beating 'gainst their iron cage...
After them came a caravan of gorgeously caparisoned mules, dragging rich cages behind them In these were very rare specimens, collected, regardless of expense, from all quarters of the globe, and not half so savage as they ought to have been. Several prominent Freshman instructors were said to be in the cage with the foxes and wolves, but the reporter failed to wholly recognize them. They so resembled the real animals that their identification was rendered especially difficult...
...College watchman was exhibited in an iron cage, heavily shackled; he looked sleepy and harmless, and some urchins running along-side even dared to tickle him with a straw. The whole pageant was brilliantly illuminated by an electric light in charge of a professor of physics, who had borrowed it from Edison expressly for this occasion. The enlivening strains of heavenly melody, the brightly flashing armor of the knights, the brilliant galaxy of starry loveliness, the ferocious roaring of the imprisoned monsters, - all combined to make a scene richer than