. The Saturday evening post. e first week he sprang to the head of his class andstayed there, inviolable, invulnerable. Indeed, carried highupon the crest of this geological wave, he won the Chap-man Scholarship, which entitled him to four years in OldBuckeye, and after that there is only one word which willdescribe Herbert Petersons frame of mind. He consid-ered himself predestined. What Maeterlinck is to the bees and Fabre is to theinsects—thats what Im going to be to the history of theearth, quoth he. That summer, though he shaved his lip, he let a littledown grow in the front of each ear—t
. The Saturday evening post. e first week he sprang to the head of his class andstayed there, inviolable, invulnerable. Indeed, carried highupon the crest of this geological wave, he won the Chap-man Scholarship, which entitled him to four years in OldBuckeye, and after that there is only one word which willdescribe Herbert Petersons frame of mind. He consid-ered himself predestined. What Maeterlinck is to the bees and Fabre is to theinsects—thats what Im going to be to the history of theearth, quoth he. That summer, though he shaved his lip, he let a littledown grow in the front of each ear—the outward visiblesign of future greatness. /// DURING his four years at college Herbert so distin-guished himself at his favorite study that when h<had earned the nickname of the Petrified Man and theright to put B. A. after his name, it was suggested thathe might like to hop off from among the students and hopon among the instructors. He hopped on and stayed onfor two years—chafing always to get away and make real. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 9 friends of the mountains—and then his Uncle Andrew diedand left him twenty-five thousand dollars invested insecurities which netted just twenty-five dollars a he had studied the question with the same care withwhich he studied everything else, young Professor Petersonresigned from the faculty and did a most peculiar bought a secondhand car, and though of course this wasonly chance, the car was a sporting model. First he learned to run it, and then he began to equip it;and if you had been there to watch his preparations youwould have seen that this was noshort trip that the Petrified Man wasplanning, but a cruise of the firstmagnitude. The rear deck of the car was takenout, and in its place a large specimenbox was installed. A glass crackerbox made a pantry; and a lean-totent, folded and strapped to the run-ning board, served as collapsiblecabin. Maps were laid in, a blank logbook, a compass, a camera, a fol
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