well
Oh cruel fate and yet methinks one cannot always tell
Things are so catching nowadays I wonder if I ever
Shall like unto the Doctor be by catching a low fever.

Sonit C.

To O-- G--.

Oh Greenfield melancholy wite hear me once before I go
'Tis sad to see the blossoms all in autumn time fall low
Canst thou recall that night in September when in the passage fair
I met you all so unexpectedly and you didn't seem to care
Oh may my hair turn white and me become a soreing lark
Before the memory of that day shines out in life's last spark.

[Wite, possibly wight.]

This was beautiful. Saint Dominic's was beginning to appreciate poetry
at last! Simon was positively delirious with triumph when, after the
burst of laughter (he called it applause) which greeted the reading of
this gem, some one cried out--

"Oh, I say! read that last one again, some one!" And then, amid
redoubled hilarity, the whole effusion was encored.

The poet promptly sought out his enthusiastic admirer.

"Oh! I say," said he, "would you like a copy of it?"

"Eh--oh, rather!" was the reply.

"Very good. You won't mind if I put a few more verses in, will you?
Pembury had to cut some out."

"My dear fellow, I shan't be happy unless I get at least twenty pages."

So off went the delighted Simon to work at this self-imposed task, and
caring little about the rest of the _Dominican_.

But some of that was worth reading, too. Tony's leading article, for
instance, was an important document. It was headed "Gone Up," and
began, "Alas! our occupation's gone! No longer will the _Dominican_ be
able to bring its sledge-hammer down on high places and walk into the
Sixth. For two of our men, O Fifth!--Greenfield and Wraysford--have
joined the classic ranks of those who eat toffee in the top form, and
play `odds and evens' under the highest desks of Saint Dominic's. We
must be careful now, or we shall catch it. And yet we ought to
congratulate the Sixth! At last they have got intelligence and high
principle, and two good men behind a scrimmage among them; and more are
coming! There's some hope for the Sixth yet, and we would not grudge
even our two best men for such a good object as regenerating the top
form of Saint Dominic's," and so on--not very flattering to the Sixth,
or very comfortable for its two newest members, who, however, had
prudently retired from the scene long ago, as soon as the first
references to Ol