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    NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
D.. COTTli\fi, Editor.
No. 22.—NEW SERIES.]
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Mail Arrangements.
POST OFFICE, >
Washington, Ga., Sept. 1, 1843. \
EASTERN MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown,
Double-Wells, Crawfordvillo, Camack, Warren
ton, Thompson, Hearing, and Barzelia.
. . t ., ARRIVES.
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rysville, Goosepond, Whiles, Mill-Stone, Ilarri
sonville, and Ruckersville.
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palmer & McMillan,
TAILORS,
HAVE removed to N0.4, Bolton's Range,
on the West side of the Public Square,
where they will be happy to see all their friends
and customers.
December 21,1843. 17
IRVIN & GARTRELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
HAVE removed their Office from the Court-
House to the Brick Building of Bolton &
Nolan, on the West side of the Public Square.
Washington, January 4, 1844. 4t 19
COTTING & BUTLER,
ATTORNIES,
HAVE taken an OFFICE on the North
side of the Public Square, next door to
the Branch Bank of the State of Georgia.
October, 1843. 28
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MR. SIMEON ELLINGTON, will attend
to my business, during my absence.—
Persons wanting BRICK will apply to him.
L. G. BASSFORD.
January 18,1844. 3t* 21
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Joseph
G. Dupriest, late of Wilkes county, deceas
ed, are requested to make immediate payment,
and those having demands against the estate
will present the same in terms of the Jaw.
. B. A. ARNETT, Adm’r.
* January 11,1844. fit 20
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From the Olive Branch.
‘TRAINING A FRESHMAN.’
A TALE OF COLLEGE LIFE.
CHAPTER 1.
It was commencement in the old College
of . Every body looked busy, some
looked important, and not a few looked
anxious—particular the candidates for ad
mission into the Freshman Class, who gazed
with the profoumlest awe upon the huge
piles of brick in which, if the examination
was favorable (how they shivered at that
intrusive if!) they were to bury them
selves for the next four years. The whole
way up to the gates was crowded with corn
ers and goers, whose appearance was like
I the figures seen in a kaleidoscope, Here
was the wealthy merchant, with his conse
quential air, his face red with good living,
and his portly body filling every inch of a
coat which looked as if it had been chosen
hy a judge of broadcloth. There passed
the lawyer—you might know him by his
universal affability—shaking hands wtth
the merchant, bowing to the dignified pro
fessors who occasionally swept through ilie
crowd, and smiling on all and singular;
close behind came the clergyman, all sanc
tity and white neckcloth. He was jostled
by the farmer, come to the ‘exhibition’ with
Iris rosy daughter under one arm, and one
of those long, black handled whips, called
a snake, under the other, the low crowned
wool hat pulled firmly over his eyes, ami
the white collar, still - as iron and sharp as a
knife, sticking straight up from his striped
neckcloth, to the manifest danger of both
his ears. Occasionally, a youth would
stride along with all the proverbial dignity
of a Sophomore ; or a well dressed Senior
would pass, exhaling an indescribable or
dor, compounded of cologne and lobacco,
whose pale face, jaded appearance, and in
cipient redness of"the nose, betrayed an ac
quaintance with Milk Punch, and ‘loo,’ and
‘sling,’at three o’clock in the morning, at
least as thorough as any established with
the ‘Clerods’ or the ‘Principia.’ Parties of
girls, too, would flutter past, all laee and
silk and muslin, all flash and glitter and
giggle; their rainbow colors contrasting
brilliantly with the dull masses of black,
and blue, and brown, which always make
a crowd of men look so vorv dismal. Be
fore and behind, and all around, came and
went the usual crowd of folks’ whoso busi
ness nobody knew, and about whom nobody
could even guess any thing, except that, of
course they came to the ‘exhibition.’
Amongthese, moved a young man, whose
well worn garments contrasted grcatlv
with the general spruceness. He certain
ly did look rather shabby, Ilis hat was of
the coarsest wool ; bis coat was home-made
—and his vest, which had once been black,
had that unspeakably seedy look, which
black vests exhibit so much above all oth
ers. His hoots, which could not have
weighed less than seven pounds a piece,
had enormously thick soles, so thick that
they looked as if they could never be worn
out ; while the grease with which they
were liberally daubed, had given a shiny
edge to the boltomsofhis fulled cloth inex
pressibles. He was of the middle height,
and strongly built. Nothing could be seen
of his face, which was concealed in the a
foresaid woollen hat, except a large and
well closed mouth, and a chin about which
there was nothing remarkable.
While he was going up to the College,
a young man of very different appearance
was coming down. This last was not so
well dressed as the other, although his
clothes were of the very best quality and
make. His elegant cap, which was stuck
on one side of his head, was dirty and stain
ed in several places. His shirt bosom of
the finest linen was rumpled and soiled.—
His coat looked as if he had slept in it, it
was so full of lint. His beautiful made
bools were foxy and cracked. He had a
cigar between his blubber lips, and he
swaggered along with his hands groping
in his breeches pockets. He was about the
middle size, and his countenance had that
unwholesome, bloated appealance, which
can be seen in its full perfection in an Eng
lish beer drinker. His exceeding brutali
ty had procured for him from his fellow
students, (for he was a member of College,)
the nickname of‘Cold Victuals,’ —his name
being Wallowmire,—for they declared that
his nose and forehead contrasted with the
flush of his cheeks, like a piece of cold fat
pork, flanked by two slices of beef! But it
was the exceeding grossness, the perfect
beastliness, the unutterable insolence of his
eye, which made it impossible to look at
him without loathing. He was, in short, a
perfect \ aiioo. His least look was an in
sult. His every motion appeared to be
sufficient cause for knocking him down.—
Every body got out of Iris way, and looked
after him with inexpressible disgust. On
he staggered ; until, coming in contact with
the young man whom we have mentioned,
who was plodding along in evident abstrac
tion, he passed him with a rude shove that
sent him reeling against the fence. Fora
moment, the young man appeared quite
bewildered, but seeing every eye bent on
him in expectation, he quickly shook off his
revory. A keen sense of indignity took
possession of him, his face reddened, his
eyes flashed, and quickly overtaking the
other, he asked him in a voice which trem
bled with excess of rage—what he meant
by pushing him in that manner? ‘Why
didn’t you get out of my way, you loafer V
i said the beast. The words were hardly
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) JANUARY 25, 1844.
| out of liis mouth, before the exasperated
i young man, seizing his collar with one
hand, and twisting the fingers of the. other
into hisneckcloth, shook him until he was
black in the face, and tlien while he was
gasping, half-strangled, and paniing with
rage and terror, he struck him, and spit on
him, and kicked him into the road.
Confounded at the sudden attack, stun
ned with the heavy blow he had received,
and almost suffocated with tage and morti
fication, it was sometime before Wallow
mire could collect his senses—and when
lie did, he found himsclfon the ground, in
the midst of a crowd of men who were evi
dently delighted with Iris punishment, and
surrounded by a mob of boys, who mocked
Iris rage at a safe distance. He glared at
them like a wild beast, but they were too
many to attack ; so picking up his cap,
which had fallen oil - in the seufile, he jum
ped over the fence with a loud curse, and
disappeared amid a universal shout of deri
sion.
CHAPTER H.
When the young man had arrived at the
plot of ground before the college, he stop
ped to rest under one of those magnificent
trees with which it is graced, and which ;
tempers the glare of an August sun into a
beautiful shade of golden green. Here, he 1
took out a cotton handkerchief, and wiped ■
away with it the tormenting sweat which
had been insinuating itself between Iris j
neck and collar. This done, lie folded his j
arms and leaned hack against the tree,
where lie might have been asleep, for all j
the motion lie made, or all the notice lie i
appeared to take of anything round him.—
While in this position, he was tiie uncon
scious object of an animated conversation
among three young men at a window in the
second story of the College.
‘Who can he be?’said one, whose free
and easy costume (a shirt and trowsers,)
declared him at home in the room.
‘Some greeny, I suppose, come to see our
exhibition, and be hanged to it,’ replied an
other, an easy, good-looking young fellow,
who was balancing himself on two legs of
a chair, with his heels out of the window.
‘That’s great news,’ said tho first sneer
ingly. ‘lsn’t every body coming to see our
exhibition ? [ knew that without telling.’
‘That’s more than you could say this
morning,’ retorted the young man, alluding
to an examination in which the other had
narrowly escaped ‘plucking.’
The first was about to make an angry
rejoinder, when lie was interrupted by the
third, who had until now been silent.
‘Come, come, it is not a very remarkable
event to fail in an examination. For my
part I have left off trying to get class hon
ors. They all go by favor, and the facul
ty just give them to any one who will fetch
and carry for them.’ This was an abomi
nable lie, and he knew it, and so did those
to whom lie spoke. In their heart or hearts, j
they knew that the faculty were upright ;
men, who gave to every one his due, and j
that if the honors of the class had been de- !
oied thorn, it was their own foolishness and
laziness that was to blame. But it was
convenient to have something on which to
shift the disgrace of failure, and they laid
it ail to the partiality oftlie faculty. They
might as well have told tho truth, for the
miserable pretence deceived no body—not
even themselves. ‘Besides,’continued he,
‘what has this to do with the feller under
the tree? 1 think he has come to join the
Freshman class.’
‘I don’t believe it’ said the first.
‘Ridiculous !’said rile second. ‘Such a
fellow as that enter college ! Why, he
looks as if he had robbed some scarecrow,
and put on the clothes.’
‘Scarecrow or not, I think he will join tiie
Freshman class—for I saw ‘Old Hunks’
talking to him this morning, and heard
him say as I passed, that he would exam
ine him at ten o’clock.’
‘Old Hunks’ was a nickname which
some of the unruly students gave to the ex
cellent, though somewhat stern professor
II , whose discipline displeased them.
At this point, the young gentleman, who, i
balancing on two legs of a chair with his]
feet on the window-sill, had been taking an ;
accurate survey of things between the toes I
of his boots, suddenly jumped up, exclaim- j
ing—‘Here comes ‘Cold Victuals’ with Iris
handkerchief up to his eye, and his coat all
dirt!’ All there looked out, and sure e
nough there was that worthy coming up to
the College in the pickle aforesaid.
‘Hollo to him, Marshall,’ said the happy
possessor oftlie shirt and trowsers, addres
sing the young gentleman who had been
cooling his heels out of the window, ‘Hol
lo to him, and ask him to come up—l want
to find out what the matter is.’
‘Wallowmire !’shouted Marshall, lean
ing out of the window, ‘Wallowmire, come
up here !’
‘Go to forgetfulness !’ responded that d
miable individual, who was now suffering
great pain from his eye, and was, in con
sequence, irritable to the last degree.
In spite of this, however, he consented to
go up at last; but not until a good deal of
coaxing, conveyed in shouts from the win
dow, had attracted a little mob of gazers,
who could hardly recognize the swagger
ing brute of half an hour ago, in the dirty
and chop-fallen figure before them. When
he opened the door, and took the handker
chieffrom his face, a simultaneous excla
mation of surprise burst from the group—
and well it might, for besides the dust and
dirt which he had rolled in, his eye was in
a shocking condition—swelled as big as his
fist, closed up, and surrounded with a va
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
j rioty of circles black, blue, and yellow and
j purple.
‘What’s the matter, Wallowmire ? How
j did you get that black eve? What have
i you been doing ? they asked all at once—
pressing round the chair on which he had
sunk.
Wallowmire immediately replied, that
| as lie walking peaceably along toward the
1 village, a loaferish looking fellow had
come behind him, attacked him without
I provocation, knocked him town, and ran
| away before he knew anything about it.—
The lying rascal ! He knew that it was
1 no such thing—but as none of the students
had seen the scrape, lie felt secure in his
falsehood.
‘Rogers,’said Marshall, addressing the
i individual in the shirt and trowsers —‘I’ll
bet you anything it was the scarecrow yon
der, that attacked him,’ pointing to the
young mar. under the tree.
‘Very likely,’ said Rogers. ‘What do
you think of it. Harris?’ turning to the oth
er, who was engaged in washing Wallow,
mire’s eye with a slate spunge.
‘1 think that Wallowmire would know
best himself;’ then addressing Wallow
mire, ‘is that the fellow that struck you ?’ I
‘You ask, just as if 1 could see with my j
eye in this condition,’ said Wallowmire, j
peevishly.
‘Can’t you sec out of the other eye?’
‘No! Os course I can’t! When 1 had j
to use it to find out the way up—the sun
made it aelie most confoundedly.’
‘Well! don’t get mad at me about it! —
If you remember the looks of the fellow, I
can tell you how he looks, and then you
can judge for yourself, if you remember.’
‘1 won’t forget him soon,’ growled Wal
lowmire; ‘tell away.’
‘That’s the very chap! cried lie, when j
Harris described him as he stood—‘l wish j
1 could see to pay him off! He said this,
but when lie remembered the heavy hand
of the stranger, he secretly blessed his stars
that iic had a good excuse for letting him
alone.
‘Well,’ said Rogers, he is a scoundrel,
that’s plain. He has all the looksof it.—
If ho is going to enter, as Harris says, we i
will make tiie college too hot to hold him!’ I
‘ls lie going to enter ?’ said Wallowmire j
as anew thought crept through his thick !
skull.
‘Harris says that ‘Old Hunks’ is going
to examine him at ten o’clock—and it is a ;
quarter to ten, now,’said Rogers, looking
up at a watch which hung on a nail beside
the looking glass.
‘ Then, by Heavens,’ exclaimed Wal
lowmire,’ ‘ If ever any body had a ‘ train
ing,’ lie will!’ And as he spoke, tiie blood 1
rushing over Iris face, made the black and i
purple streaks round iris eye look horribly ]
inflamed. ‘You will help me train him, j
wont you, Rogers ?’ continued fie.
‘ VVith all mv heart,’ said Rodgers.
‘ And you ?’ turning to Marshall.
‘ Yes, 1 will for one.’
f Then, Marshall'’ said he, ‘Come over)
to my room now, and, we will see about it; j
and do you, addressing Rogers and Harris,
come over to-night, and bring Morton and :
Gray along with you—’twill settle him !’ j
And lie walked off, attended by Marshall,
holding his handkerchief up to iris face,
and chuckling at the thoughts of the ap
proaching training.
A ‘training,’ as it is called, is a slang
term, in College, for breaking into a
new comer’s room, and playing all sorts of
mischievous pranks—annoying him, and
injuring his furniture. This is ‘all for
sport’: ‘only a joke;’ and rowdy students
no doubt think it a very pleasant one.
Harris had not promised to go over with
the rest, and Wallowmire, thinking that lie
would come of course, had not asked him
particularly. He said nothing, until Wal
lowmire and Marshall had left. But as
they closed the entry door behind them, he
addressed himself to his companion :
‘I tell you what it is, Rogers, you will
let this fellow alone, if you take my advice.
As for his attack upon Wallowmire, you
know there are always two sides to a story.
It is one of Wallowmire’s lies. I don’t be- 1
liove that he, or any body else, would at
tack even such a brute as ‘ Cold Victuals,’
without provocation. This, too, will not
be the usual harmless jokery of a ‘train
ing’: Wallowmire appears determined to
do him some injury, and if this should come
to the ears of the faculty, you will certain
ly get into a scrape.’
‘ I don’t care a fig for tiie faculty,’ said
Rogers, 1 1 am ready and willing that they
should hear all about it, and I’ll certainly
train this fellow, if it was only to vex ‘ Old
Hunks.’
‘ Well,’ said Harris, ‘ you may do what
you like, but I wash my hands of it entire,
ly; ‘Cold Victuals’ may do his own
‘training;’ I never will help him!’ And
so saying, he went out, leaving Rogers a
lone in the room, gazing at the ill-dressed
young man under the tree, who had not
stirred all the while.
chapter Hi-
Three or four strokes upon the college
hell appeared to rouse the young man
whom we left leaning against the tree. He
gazed anxiously at the building from under
his great woollen liat, and finally walked
up in an irresolute manner towards the
gate. While he was hesitating between
ignorance of the locality and pride—for he
did not know where to go, and did not wish
to expose himself, by enquiry, to the super
ciliousness of the well-dressed student, a
gentleman of a very dignified appearance
came out, and shaking him heartily hy the
j hand entered into close conversation with
) him. It was the celebrated Professor 11.
j Many were the conjectures of the students
as to what ho could have to say to such a
J person. Some guessed that the follow had
brought him a curious plant, or some scarce
, mineral, of which it was well known that
tho professor was a great collector. Oth
j ers said that ho might be hired to saw the
professor’s wood and do his ‘ chores,’ while
] one student gravely suggested that the l’ro
j fessor might he bargaining to stuff him with
straw and set him up in the museum ! ad
! ding, that if he did, it would secure the most
j extraordinary animal in the world to the
collection. This raised a smile, which
was rapidly replaced by a look of wonder,
j as the Professor drew the young man’s arm
into his own, and took him into the exami
j nation room.
When the term began, he went into the
j College Chapel and took his seat with the
j Freshman class.
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CHAPTER IV.
Three nights after, the young man was
; sitting alone in his room in the divi-
I sion of College. It was poorly, nay mean
ly furnished—two rickety chairs, a white
pine table, on which was a pile of books; a
wretched truckle bed ; a water bucket and
an old brown leather trunk ; made the
eves ache to look at them. The room
which had fallen to him was one of the lar
gest kind, and the wretched furniture scat
tered around at wide intervals, gave it an
air of desolateness that chilled the very
heart. The harvest moon poured in its
beams through tlie wide uncurtained win
dows—which seemed to turn the bright yel
low light as it passed through them into a
ghastly white—like the skin of a corpse.
The old woollen hat hung on a nail driven i
into the plaster, and was the only thing that j
broke the wide blank of the wall. His j
features, which were easily discernible by j
tbe light of the moon, were homely, and j
only relieved from vulgar ugliness by the j
sternness of mouth, the boldness oftlie fore- :
head, and the intelligence that shone in the i
large eyes. lie sat with his elbow on the I
pine table, and a sickly smile flickered o- ;
ver Iris face, as lie looked around on tiie ]
lofty walls, vvliito and bare, which rose like 1
ghosts before him. The light made the !
poverty oftlie furniture shockingly plain; !
you could see to pick up a pin in the far
thest corner of tiie room. After a long pe
riod, passed in the most melancholy reflec
tion, lie rose and going over to the old leath- j
ern trunk, he opened it and took out some- 1
thing carefully wrapt in paper, which pro- !
ved to be a loaf of bread. Then he took j
out a pewter tumbler, and going over to tiie >
bucket in the corner oftlie room, he filled ;
it; then breaking off a piece of bread, lie j
attempted to eat. But he could not swal- !
low a morsel, and when lie thought that this j
was the way in which he must spend four ;
oftlie best years of Iris life, a momentary j
weakness came over him ; he felt almost
choked, and when he lifted the tumbler to
drink, the large tears rolled down his face
and mingled with the water.
At this moment he was startled by a loud
shout at a distance, succeeded hy the tram
pling of many feet past his window and in j
the entry, and a sharp knock at his door. I
Hastily cramming the bread into his trunk, j
lie cleared all signs of emotion from Iris
face, lit a miserable tallow candle, and in
a hurried voice desired Iris visitors to ‘ walk
in ?’
CHAPTER v.
Just one hour earlier in the same even
ing, a different scene was onaeting in an
other part of the college. When Harris
had left Rogers looking out of the window j
at the shabby student, lie went to the post- !
office and dropped into the box an anony- |
motis letter to Professor II , in which, 1
without mentioning any names or implies- j
ting any body, he declared in the most posi- j
tive terms, that a ‘ training’ was meditated, j
It was treated by that gentleman with much j
more consideration than he generally he- j
stowed upon anonymous letters, for the
manner was very earnest, and respectful
withal ; and the. out-break of which it fore
warned him was only too probable, as he
had had occasion to know. After puzzling
over it for a long time in a vain endeavor
to discover the writer, he laid it before a
meeting of the College Government. Tiie
result of this was, that a public warning
was given to all whom it might concern,
that whoever engagod in any such proceed,
ing would be severely punished. Now
there are almost always some young men
in every institution, who feel themselves
called upon to display tiieir 1 spirit’ by op
posing tiie faculty on every occasion. This
‘ spirit ’ is further displayed by an ostenta
tious disobedience, by a studied disregard
of every wholesome regulation, and by such
an insulting deportment toward the college
officers, as would procure them a hearty
thrashing from their negro wood-sawyer, if
they dared to make him the object of any
such insolence. If one of these is particu
larly impertinent, he is declared by all the
rest to be a fellow about whom there is ‘ no
mistake.’ The addition of debauchery en
titles him to the appellation of a ‘custom
er;’ but, if with incredible pains and ex
ertion, he succeeds in violating all the de
cencies of life, and in making himself an
abomination to every body whose good o
pinion is worth having, he has attained all
the renown he can hope for this side of the
State Prison, and is unanimously exalted to
the dignity of a ‘ Hard Ticket!’
The public admonition which I have ’
isl. J. KAPPEIj, Printer.
j mentioned excited immense indignation, ot
| course, among all tho ‘spiritod’ studentsof
every degree; and a meeting to take the
matter into consideration, was appointed at
Wallownrire’s room, (which was their reg
ular lounge,) on tiie same evening that our
shabby looking student was sitting alone in
his apartment. This room of Wallowmire’s
was one of the best ill the college build
ings. He had prepared it nicely and divi
ded it hy a partition, behind which he had
fitted up a magnificent bed room, furnished
with every tiring which money could buy,
for his father was wealthy and gave hint a
liberal allowance. In the outer part —Iris
‘drawingroom,’ ns he called it, himself,
Marshall, Rogers, and thirteen others were
crowded round a long table, or rather two
tables together, and the oysters and pastry
of many kinds with which they wore cover
cd, siiowed Iris unlimited credit with the
. cellars, —I beg their pardon, the Restaura
teur Establishments ! Each of them had
! one of those miserable cigars called a ‘long
nine, in Iris mouth, the smoke of which ab
solutely filled the room, and was so very
dense that it was wonderful how they could
possibly manage to breathe. They were
all, however, in high spirits, and very noi
sy, the more so that a vile compound of
; hard cider, brandy and Brazil wood, which
they were innocent enough to take for
Champaigne, had been circulating among
them for some time, with a rapidity known
only to students on a ‘spree.’ In fact the
popping of corks, the clashing of glasses,
the scraping of feet, the creaking of chairs,
and the shoutings of the students, all talk
ing at once, made an uproar which was
absolutely deafening. No less than seven
were on their legs at the same time trying
to make a speech, regardless of the cries
which assailed them of ‘ Silence !’ ‘ Sit
down !’ 1 Order !’ ‘ Order !’ ‘ Look here
now ’ ‘I appeal to the chair!’ bel
lowed one. ‘ I had the floor !’ yelled an
other, standing with one foot in Iris chair
and another 0:1 the edge of the table.
• Hurrah for Jackson !’ screamed a third
in an testacy of delight as this last lost Iris
balance and fell among the dishes with a
loud crash. Asa last resource, the Presi
dent, (Marshall,) stood up, and braying
with all his might, made a noise so perfect
ly hideous, that every body was surprised
into silence. Immediately getting into his
chair—‘Gentlemen,’ said he, ‘l have a
toast to propose to you ; fill your glasses!’
Every glass was filled to the brim.
‘ This is my toast, Gentlemen : 1 The
faculty of ! They wish to be our ty
rants ; we will never he their slaves !
(loud cheers and stamping.) May Satan
fly away with them, body and bones!’
Every glass was instantly turned offa
mid tiie most uproarious applause. When
tiie tumult had subsided, Marshall again
rose.
‘One more toast, Gentlemen: ‘Our
honored host! success to his spirited efforts
in favor of Students’ Rights. Long may
he live to trample upon ail ‘ blue laws,’*
and to he a thorn in the side of the tyrants
who make them !’
This was received by the whole compa
ny standing—with three times three, in
which no one joined more heartily than
their ‘honored host’ himself, who had been
until now, too busy gormandizing to take
any part in the tumult.
‘ Gentlemen,’ said Rogers, seizing upon
the first pause—‘this mention of our host
brings to my mind the base and cowardly
attack made upon him last commencement
day hy a fellow who now disgraces this in
stitution with his presence. You all have
heard the particulars ; and 1 will not re
peat them. But is such a rascal fit compa
ny for the Students of ?
‘ No ! no !’ from the company.
‘ Then let us give him an inducement to
leave us ; Let us j, train’ him, gentlemen,
and lose no time about it!’
‘ Rogers forever!’ cried Marshall, as he
hurried to the door ; ‘ Hurrah for the train
ing !’
‘ Hurrah !’ shouted the excited Students,
as, following Marshall, they ran roaring
down the stairs, and turned with a tramping
that shook the ground, to the room of the
poor Student.
In about half a minute, Wallowmire
stealthily returned, and after gazing appre
hensively round, went into his bed-room.
When he came out he held something-in
his hand which glittered in the lamp-light;
carefully putting this into his vest pocket,
he poured out and swallowed nearly a tum
bler full of wine, and with a malignant
smile upon the countenance, crept noise
lessly out of the room.
CHAPTER VI.
‘Walk in, repeated the St a-lent, in a
louder tone, as the public warning of the
Faculty now (lashed upon his mind. lie
had hardly spoken this time, before the
door hurst open, and Marshall broke into
the room at the hend of his gang.
‘To what am I indebted for the honor of
this visit?’ said the young man haughtily
drawing himself up and looking Marshall
right in the face.
But he received no answer whatever.
The truth is that Marshall could not speak.
He was taken altogether by surprise. He
was not prepared for such poverty as he
saw. The large empty looking room, tiie
scanty furniture, and the shabby dress of
tiie F'reshman, such a chilling contrast,
such a sudden change, from the conifer's
and conveniences of the apartment he ha 1
just left, almost took away his breath, lie
* The College Laws were 10 called.
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