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...leave Cambridge at Commencement and make his plans for twelve weeks. Three weeks at least must be subtracted for the two voyages, thus leaving nine weeks to be spent ashore. If one has $250 in all, and pays $130 for his steamer tickets, that will leave $1.90 a day, which will be enough to live on even in London. Of course it is necessary to take lodgings in some quiet place, perhaps not very near the city, and have your meals at the chop houses and small restaurants. It is very easy to confine one's self to a fixed...
GEORGE was reading a strange story the other day...
...week before the wedding-day, just at nightfall, when George went out alone, to walk over to the Haddens,' - no very great distance. He had gone but a little way when a stranger who had been following him along the sidewalk stepped quickly up behind and laid a quiet hand upon his shoulder...
...bold to ask him wherefore he sallied forth thus alone. To which Lighthead replied, "I go to the College Harvard." "Nay," quoth the dame, "'tis a naughty place. Prithee turn back." But Lighthead, still with his burden on his back, went forward, and on the morning of the second day he reached a city duller than the grave. And Lighthead, somewhat weary, did partake of refreshment and the nut-brown ale; and asking of the carle who kept the inn, he learned that the place was hight Vanity Fair, and in it was Harvard...
...Worldly Wise, with an ill-hidden smile of scorn, replied, "Don't register at all." "Nay, but I must," the hero replied. "Then sit upon that step," said Sloth, "and wait." So Lighthead waited, and the noon past and evening came - but no one else. Then he, feeling the day was cold, got up and departed. That night he thought much of his home, and wept...