The Adventures of a Freshman

it was one of the best in all Illinois. But that was not the reason, nor had he graduated first in his class, indeed; one of the girls did, as usual, though, to be

ever, I ain't going to spend my hard-earned money making a dude of any son of mine; and that's all I have to say about it. On the

swer to the question, "Won't you just lend me the mon

s your collateral, hey?

your final dec

college you pay your own way. Goo

k lessons, not doubting that his father would give his consent in the end. But now it was: "This is too good a chance to miss, Will-why, you'll soon make a rich man of yourself. Of course, you must take it. What's the use of having your father

ly 1st took the place in the bank and began to work a

id study with the minister during the past years preparing himself for it, and in consequence it was often 'way after the dark by the time he had driven ou

nd enter the next fall, but the minister told him he

nson or any of the young men that ever worked under

er mentioned the word college to his father again; and to those of his old friends who said, "Oh, so you aren't goin

ps) what he intended to do after leaving the High School, more than one of them thought, and said, that it was a queer idea for Will Young to

etimes, on the first of the month-and was besides doing all the chores for Miss Wilkins, with whom he boarded. And that was not all the work he did, either. Those who passed by Miss Wilkins's house late

lothes and incidentals out of it besides. That was the reason he did th

ty per cent of earnings saved is not a bad proporti

salary to $10 a week as they promised to do as soon as he h

it had not been for the Sunday afternoon talks with his mother, who was with him from the start in the projec

nner of talking, that made some of the older pe

as to do is collect a tableful of congenial fellows and then he gets his own board free). There are more men that want tutoring at a large institution, and the price of tutoring is better, too-(a man in my class in the seminary used to get $3 an hour); and there are more newspapers to correspond for and shoe-stores and steam-laundries and railroads to act as agents for-why, t

burst into the kitchen. "Mother," he shouted to his wife, almost excitedly, "what

rs. Young, ge

ide of a year. He'll be made assistant cashier soon. Why, the bo

t to Chicago on his vacation to tak

llege!

over the country." Then she went on, "You remember, father,

id not last as long as she had feared it would. Mr. Young was just, and he had to acknowledge, inwardly, that Will w

Mr. Young said in bidding Will good-by. He kne

traight poplars, to the north, in even row, planted by his father's own hand before Will was born; he saw their tops waving in the breeze as they were cut off from view-and all that seemed years and years ago, though, in reality, it was only Monday, the day before yesterday, and here he was at last, actually at college and sitting in chapel listening to the President's kin

ge-and-black-bedecked Sophomores on the steps murmured, "right, left, right, left,"

of his classmates did. In fact his hat did not come off until the even