The Adventures of a Freshman

two Sophomores, and each of them had reasons for wanting to humiliate you, and one of the fellows was a footba

ill Young was different from you, for he f

ing the door so the landlady might not hear, "Well, D

g. Instinctively

Ballard, of whom you have doubtless heard-the famous centre rush of the famous Sophomore footb

ver sit on chairs." He had seated himself on Young's table, with one

ren't far away from here now." Ballard chuckled at this. "But we miss

t Young said nothing, and wondered how

me with your name; so I went to the registrar's office and asked where my dear old friend Willie Young room

his way of talking. He thought Chan

ing against th

k up your hat and come on like a good little boy; we're

anning, what the Sophomores did with

ded. However, Freshman," he added, patronizingly stern, "this will teach you a good lesson-two good lessons. In the first place, little Willie must wear a cap

. Young flushed

thus save us the trouble of taking it off for you; and," he added, looking out of

n's got another hat in his closet," he said, gruffly. Then he comm

the train and when he first arrived-in his closet,

"Come on." He let Channing do the guying, but

aid a word, and he was quietly looking down

with you. Are you going to come along peacefully and have an easy time of i

up. He seemed to be moving h

come, eh?" he said, angrily. And wi

ched quickly away, backing up against the wall. He stood there

d made up his mind to stay in it. At any rate, to do it without considerable noise is impossible. Therefore Channing stepped across to the open

he remarked, nodding his head,

wall. Ballard, braced against the door opposite

e in a minute,"

have aroused the landlady's suspicions. As it was, Channing had been obliged to tell her that Balla

e down and let them in," said

heard coming

e gotten here so s

any whistle,"

steps ca

" said a voice jus

came the reassuring ton

res had sto

kn

rep

her

said Young,

tepped to

oor o

is Mr.

g. "Come in." He was still

hair stood in the doorway. "I am Nolan," he said, "of the Juni

ng in the situation and smiling, "sorry to spoil your fun," he

ere entering the room, and Channing wanted to get down in time to-but it was too late. The Juniors had left the front door open when they entere

o use coming now

me right up; don't mind us." So, rather than seem afraid of the Juniors they tr

ophomores he happened to know person

two of them, and they said, "Ho

nything else

rrupt you," said C

Young noticed that the others seemed to consider this a good joke on Channing, and Chann

e just as well if you fellows all got up and got out of here now. Billy and I came here to talk hall to thi

hair, and he was a university football

request seven or eight men to leave a room. He struck a match for his pipe as he finished speaki

kly arose, murmured, "Good-night," an

the arrogant Sophomores did not even question the Junior's power. He was learning someth

oung how different were the two secret literary societies, whose mysterious, Greek temples looked so much a

put in a word now and then, but he kept glancing at the Freshman in a queer, qui

omores are botherin

," he replied; "they tried to make me take

ould impress thes

ed at Nolan,

course it's none of my business, but-we

hy

ecause you'r

ake me take off my hat to them

" He opened the door. "You think it over, Yo

his friend Billy Nolan, "I like that bi

. Do you think we'l

nt life, and he doesn't know how to take it. He was an important person at home-probably led his class at the High School-has a lot of little brothers and sisters that bow down to him; and they've told him that he is a great man so o

re, and he did guess pretty well this time, thoug

s, "college will be a great thing for him. No one ever m

ealize it last year," i

t the year before. My, what a big chump you'

s ass you'd have made, Jim.

thers' shoulders, reminiscencing about days which, to hear them talk, you would ha

said to him. Also he thought over what he had observed when the Juniors and Sophomor