lso,
against emergencies, a miniature handkerchief with a teddy bear
embroidered in one corner and a safety pin. The expedition may be deemed
to have been a success, as none of these properties were called upon or
even remembered.

The car we boarded did not take us just where we expected to go, but
that made little difference to the Urchin, who gazed steadfastly out of
the window at a panorama of shabby streets, and offered no comment
except one of extreme exultation when we passed a large poster of a cow.
Admirably docile, he felt confident that the unusual conjunction of both
arbiters of destiny and an impressive trolley car would in the end
produce something extremely worth while. We sped across Gray's Ferry
bridge--it seems strange to think that region was once so quiet, green,
and rustic--transferred to another car on Woodland Avenue, past the
white medley of tombstones in Woodland Cemetery, and got off at the
entrance to the dormitory quadrangles at Thirty-seventh Street. We
entered through the archway--the Urchin's first introduction to an
academic atmosphere. "This is the University," I said to him severely,
and he was much impressed. As is his way, he conducted himself with
extreme sobriety until he should get the hang of this new experience and
see what it was all about. I knew from the serene gold sparkle of his
brown eyes that there was plenty of larking spirit in him, waiting until
he knew whether it was safe to give it play. He held my hand
punctiliously while waiting to see what manner of place this University
was.

A college quadrangle on a Sunday afternoon has a feeling all its own.
Thin tinklings of mandolins eddy from open windows, in which young men
may be seen propped up against bright-coloured cushions, always smoking,
and sometimes reading with an apparent zeal which might deceive a few
onlookers. But the slightest sound of footfalls on the pavement outside
their rooms causes these heads to turn and scan the passers. There is
always a vague hope in these youthful breasts that some damsel of
notable fairness may have strayed within the bastions. Groups of ladies
of youth and beauty do often walk demurely through the courts, and may
be sure of hearing admiring whistles shrilled through the sunny air.
When a lady walks through a college quadrangle and hears no sibilation,
let her know sadly that first youth is past. Even the sedate
guardianship of Scribe and Urchin did not forfeit one Lady of Dest