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...prodigal. He wonders if the old prodigal in the parable would have been pardoned quite as readily if he had been attended by a retinue of unpaid bills. Dick, likewise, is as sad as twilight. He took a hand with Dan Cupid last summer, and won. Ah! you conceited fellow, you are thinking that Rose is not quite worthy of you, and that you might have done better, after all. But you must make her a present, ex officio. We sympathize - with Rose...
...Then how is it that you 've got your hat now? " There was a suspicious twinkle in his eye as he answered." All in good time, my dear fellow. I'll explain that to your satisfaction by and by - If we go on this way we shall get to hair-splitting, which is unprofitable, you know. Don't ask irrelevant and awkward questions, but let me go on with my story. Where was I ? O yes. Well, I pulled out a handkerchief, and with both hands dusted the sparklets from my face and shoulders. At last, thank Heaven, they shut...
...asks questions. Why does he do it? It is not for information surely, for he asks questions when he already knows their answers. I think it must be because he wants to give the instructor opportunities to enlighten the rest of us. I know the fellow knows a good deal, for, when we were reading the other day about Hannibal's blasting rocks with fire and vinegar, he asked why he did not use nitro-glycerine...
...last issue of the Courant contains two full-page illustrations of the boat-races at Yale. Perspective is unknown to the Courant's artist, and in depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than...