get much of a breeze the next morning,
did we, when we had to clean out the recitation room?"

A solemn-looking minister, with red hair, who was present, and whose
eyes twinkled some through the smoke, said to another:

"Charlie, you remember you were completely gone on the professor's niece
who was visiting there from Poughkeepsie? What become of her?"

Charlie put his feet on the table, struck a match on his trousers, and
said:

"Well, I wasn't gone on her, as you say, but just liked her. Not too
well, you know, but just well enough. She had a color of hair that I
could never stand--just the color of yours, Hank--and when she got
to going with a printer I kind of let up, and they were married. I
understand he is editing a paper somewhere in Illinois, and getting
rich. It was better for her, as now she has a place to live, and does
not have to board around like a country school ma'am, as she would if
she had married me." A dark-haired man, with a coat buttoned clear
to the neck, and a countenance like a funeral sermon, with no more
expression than a wooden decoy duck, who was smoking a briar-wood pipe
that he had picked up on a what-not that belonged to the host, knocked
the ashes out in a spittoon, and said:

"Boys, do you remember the time we stole that three-seated wagon and
went out across the marsh to Kingsley's farm, after watermelons?"

Four of them said they remembered it well enough, and Jim said all he
asked was to live long enough to get even with Bill Smith, the Chicago
preacher, for suggesting to him to steal a bee-hive on the trip. "Why,"
said he, "before I had got twenty feet with that hive, every bee in it
had stung me a dozen times. And do you remember how we played it on
the professor, and made him believe that I had the chicken-pox? O,
gentlemen, a glorious immortality awaits you beyond the grave for lying
me out of that scrape."

The fat man hitched around uneasy in his chair and said they all seemed
to have forgotten the principal event of that excursion, and that was
how he tried to lift a bull dog over the fence by the teeth, which had
become entangled in a certain portion of his wardrobe that should not be
mentioned, and how he left a sample of his trousers in the possession
of the dog, and how the farmer came to the college the next day with
his eyes blacked, and a piece of trousers cloth done up in a paper, and
wanted the professor to try and match it with the pants of some of the
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