At good old Siwash . ouldnt get along without coat-cutunderwear long before we had heard of it, and youcould tell by looking at his shoes just what the rest ofthe school would be wearing in two years. That wasPetey all the way through. He was first and FatherTime was nowhere, forty miles back with a bustedtire. Petey took to college life like a kid to candy andjust soaked himself in college spirit. He proposedhis sixty-five-dollar banjo for membership in the cluband went in with it of course. He was elected yell-master before he had been in school two weeks, andif you ever want to know how muc
At good old Siwash . ouldnt get along without coat-cutunderwear long before we had heard of it, and youcould tell by looking at his shoes just what the rest ofthe school would be wearing in two years. That wasPetey all the way through. He was first and FatherTime was nowhere, forty miles back with a bustedtire. Petey took to college life like a kid to candy andjust soaked himself in college spirit. He proposedhis sixty-five-dollar banjo for membership in the cluband went in with it of course. He was elected yell-master before he had been in school two weeks, andif you ever want to know how much noise can comeout of a comparatively small orifice you should haveseen him emitting riot and pandemonium in thesecond half of a lively football game. !N^aturally, itworried Petey almost to death to see the dear oldColl. disintegrating under the Scroggs Inquisition,and he used to sit around the frat house with hishead on his hands for hours, smoking his pipe, whichhad the largest bowl in school, and combing his con-. r-f. -^3 When Greek Meets Grouch 63 volutions for a plan. Then, along in March, heelectrified the whole school by taking Martha Scroggsto the college promenade. Martha was old Malachis daughter. We hadntknown it, but she had been in school all that was a quiet girl who was designed like a tallproblem in plane geometry. While it was possiblefor a clock to run in the same room with her, stillshe was not what you might call a picnic to look was the kind of girl a man would look at onceand then go off and admire the scenery, even if itonly consisted of a ninety-acre cornfield and a grainelevator. Martha was only about eighteen, and Inever could understand how she got on to the stylesof thirty-six years ago and wore them as fluently asshe did. I^aturally, Martha had gotten along in her studieswithout being pestered by society to any extent. Isometimes think this helped old Scroggs to hate was his only child, and he had taken all theaffection and
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