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...does do promptly is to present his bill "for services rendered" - what irony. He imagines, or else seems to, that his obligations cease after 9 o'clock A. M., and that after this hour he need only ask the occupant of some room for the last Nation or Puck or the new Elective Pamphlet, and having assumed a position that would do honor to a Sybarite, spend the remaining hours of the day in his lodge, blissfully unconscious of the wants of the unfortunate beings who are dependent upon him. If he is very obliging he will leave open...
...people," Puck remarks, "discover their mission until it is too late. Perhaps when Anna Dickinson attains her twenty-first year she will find out that her forte is not "Hamlet...
Lampy unfolded the roll of paper. "This selection," said he, "was handed in by a Freshman who wanted to be an editor. The idea is not original, for it appeared in the last number of my sheet, having previously been worked up in Puck, Punch, the Advocate, and other so-called funny papers...
...Puck on Wheels" is announced as a "comic book for summer reading." It will probably contain the poems and cartoons which have appeared in Puck from time to time on the bicycle. It will be issued about the first of July...