d hardly conscious of what
I was saying, repeated aloud. Butler, who was a man of high
spirit, and quick temper, was furious. He came down upon
me with a burst of wrath. I tried to interrupt him. But
he was so angry that it was impossible to interrupt him and
said something which made it seem to me impossible either
to explain or apologize. But I regretted the transaction
exceedingly, and have always considered that I was well punished
for my joke at the expense of my unhappy classmate.

An anecdote came down from a class before my time which I
think ought not to be lost. One of the boys when the cold
weather came on in the first term of his freshman year took
out from the college library a book which was nearly the largest
and thickest volume it contained. It was the works of Bishop
Williams, who I think was one of the seven bishops persecuted
by James II. The book contained an exceedingly dull treatise
on theology. The youth had no special literary tastes, of
which anybody knew, and that was the only book he was ever
known to take out. He kept it out the six weeks which were
allowed, and then renewed it, not taking it back to the library
until the hot weather of the following summer. He repeated
this in his sophomore and junior and senior years. Dr. Harris,
the librarian, was very much puzzled and asked some of the
boys if they could tell him why this young man kept Bishop
Williams's works so constantly. None of the boys knew. They
used to see it lying on his table, but never saw any signs
of his reading it. At last one winter night late in the senior
year something happened which caused a good deal of excitement.
Several of the boys who were down in the yard rushed up in
great haste to this classmate's room. It happened to be unlocked.
They got in without knocking and found him undressed with
nothing on but his nightgown. His bed happened to be near
the fire, and standing up on the edge in front of the fire
was Bishop Williams's works. It turned out that he was in
the habit of thoroughly warming the book and then of putting
it in the bed before he got in himself, so that it would serve
the function of a warming-pan. The young gentleman turned
out in after life to be a very distinguished Bishop himself,
an eminent champion of the doctrines of the Episcopal Church,
which he had doubtless acquired by absorption.

The boys were always ready for mischief and always kind and
easily moved to sympath