Molly Brown's Freshman Days

llington!" call

d mingled with another stream of girls emptying itself from the coaches. Everywhere appeared girls,-leaping from omnibuses; hurrying down the gr

s of white duck or serge, and across the front of each sweater was embroi

ulating mob stood Mr. Murphy, bagg

all the baggage left over by the 9.45. If your trunk ain't on

grace which was hers by rights and the awkwardness which comes of growing too fast. She wore a shabby brown homespun su

e silk which seemed to draw attention away from

r of a winter sunset. Neve

oung girl who now pushed her way through the crowd of student

pe it is. It came from Louisville to Philadelphia safely, and

and prejudiced one. If he liked the face of a student, he always waited on her first, regardless of how many othe

gaged," put in a haughty looking young w

"don't go fer to git excited. I ain't made no promises to no one. It's plain to se

l in shabby brown. "I'm not used to-

rned irri

e, but loud enough to be overheard. "Freshies have

ss her cheek. The trip from Kentucky in this warm September weather was not the pleasantest journey in the world. While she waited for Mr.

lips, "I have a room at Queen's cottage. It's the best I could do unless I went into one of the expensive suites in the

er girl

thing with your enterprising wa

"I'm there, too. My name is Molly Brown. I come from Kentucky. I feel awfully

o Molly Brown's voice which made t

e. "Yes, I am at Queen's cottage," she continued aloud, "but that's about all I can tell you

dreamy eyes and an absent-minded manner. She came from Phila

," called the baggage master. "Li

k-eyed Judith standing nearby flashed

u right for pushin

she asked of her new fr

ance Oldham. "I know that much. There's one fi

ady half filled with students. Even at this early stage in their acqua

d not to be homesick. I really didn't know what the feeling was like, because I have never had a chance to learn. But I

red Nance. "It's because you live so

many windows blurred her vision for a moment. But she resolutely pressed her lips together and

the country between rolling meadow lands tinged a golden brown with the autumn sun. And there in t

her hands and smil

she exclaime

ce, who also felt some qui

ton. "I came down to en

was a busy conversati

med a tiny girl with birdlike motions and intelligent, beady lit

person who had noticed this resemblan

t gym never had any charms for you an

he only exercise Jennie Wren ever takes is to

never wear them, not even quill

?" asked Molly Brown, of a tall, som

he hasn't been in Wellington a quarter of an hour and she has already made three friends,-Caroline and the station-master and me. And now she's getting

ached to the gym, and there are golf links, of course. You know they are quite famous in this part of the world. Then, there are the tennis courts, and we'll still have some canoeing on the la

who was really quite ignorant regarding college life, although she h

was not good looking, but she had a f

se most things have their season, and most girls specialize, anyhow. A golf fiend is

s Stewart." She learned afterward that Miss Stewart was a senior and a member of the "Octogons," the most coveted society in the University. She led in all the athletic sports, was quite a wonderful musician and had composed an operetta for her c

was general excitement of a subdued sort among the new girls and greetings and ca

stood up promptly, shrinking a little as twenty

leaned over and to

ewart, and I stop at No. 16 on the Quadrangle. Perhaps I can he

to her voice which never failed to thrill her hearer

ewart as Molly climbed out, dragging her straw telescope over the knees of the other

disappearing vehicle, they became th

o my execution," observed Molly, trying to laugh, alth

lipping her arm through Nance's. "Queen's Cottage does se

ld vines which appeared to have been prematurely stripped of their foliage. It was somewhat isolated, at least it seemed

so be it," and she marched up the walk and rang the front door

alled a voice from above. "You're the new young

he baggage master and housekeeper for Queen's Cottage. She was a middle-aged Irish woman with a round, g

; "and if ye be friends, ye may like to be roommates, surely, and th

y, with the swiftness peculiar to girls, bridged the gulf which separates total strangers, and were now on the very verge of plunging int

charming, cordial manner which appeare

lue of showing real pleasure when she felt it. Nevertheless, Nance, under

s, became roommates during their freshman year at Wellington College and th

ver a portion of the golf links. Molly liked it because it had bl