Purdue debris . ¢*fk®hB°s **P®pmm (§®&* *m gWtfaffiP he *r*c**d GREE Z. Gradd had l>een up against thecold and clammy world for three had wrestled with the cruel wolf andhad been counted out a couple of he was pinned to a perpetual smileand the third time he got a half Nelson on adversityand accumulated enough of the necessary to buy somereal stylish clothes and a handsome brooch for hisshirt front. Taking a pike at the mirror of his memory, herecalled that he had been widely popular in his foolishcollege days. He sighed as he thought of the famoustouchdown he h
Purdue debris . ¢*fk®hB°s **P®pmm (§®&* *m gWtfaffiP he *r*c**d GREE Z. Gradd had l>een up against thecold and clammy world for three had wrestled with the cruel wolf andhad been counted out a couple of he was pinned to a perpetual smileand the third time he got a half Nelson on adversityand accumulated enough of the necessary to buy somereal stylish clothes and a handsome brooch for hisshirt front. Taking a pike at the mirror of his memory, herecalled that he had been widely popular in his foolishcollege days. He sighed as he thought of the famoustouchdown he had made in hisFreshman year, when planting afoot in the solar plexus of onevillain, grabbing another by thetongue and trampling a thirdtriumphantly in the mud he hadfought his bloody way throughthe whole opposing team, leavingbehind him a trail of prostrateand suffering humanity. Hecould remember himself struttingup South Ninth Street dressedlike an advertisement for a cloth-ing house and how all the ravish-. ing Lafayette butterflies would be waiting at thewindow to watch him pass. He also had been toutedas the real candy when it came to telling a girl she wasan understudy for Julia Marlowe or had Maxine Elliottbacked into the wings. One balmy day in September, he forgot the vicissi-tudes of a sordid business life, shook the dirt andgrime of Chi! from his boots and returned to thatbright spot of culture and refinement upon the greenbanks of the Wabash far away. He climbed into hisswell rags and stuck the diamond brooch into his an unsuspecting friend for a V and soakedhis slide rule for fifty cents. Hetried to sell this gold brick butthe first man laughed when heopened upon its good cpualitiesand when he tried to show howthe plaything worked got balledup on two times two. The manasked if he took him for a dânfool and gave him the unsym-pathetic stare. He pushed outhis tie, pulled down his cuffs andstarted for the train. On the way to Lafayette GreeZ.
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