The Adventures of a Freshman

y create new wants to satisfy. Patient willingness to do whatever turns up will only bring success

d to have taken a fancy to Young, and talked to him frequently. Mrs. Lee liked him, too. She seemed to consider his preferring to eat his peas with a spoon a very small matter (though Will himself blushed scarlet when he discovered his mistake). She said she was glad her son h

try, but what Lucky's father said mad

d of college quite as well as to the big world of commerce of which Mr. Lee spoke. Every day as he walked to and from recitations t

as soon as anyone yelled, "Hold up, there, Lucky!" and

came to him. He suddenly stopped short, slapped his thigh, and said: "I've got i

ndy! But, say, are y

But I'm sure I'll have to leave college

all the expense

s the way to do business. And just now everything is dull

ck 'em up. It'll remind

and lectures, saw a poster on the Bulletin Elm. It had two black letters on it, C. C.

ered what it meant; but this time some of them did not pass on until they had asked so

hed it off durin

as put up the

again," said the passers-b

seems

campus, and in the town on all the billboards, old barrels, tumble-down sheds, and stalled wagons. On the way to recitation, or lectures, every o

theatres and the like, as at most large institutions of learning. The campus life is the only life, and the college students are depend

ne deciphered its meaning, the college began to get interested-all the more so because it was

asked. "What's the meaning of thi

, in a dignified way, as to "the meaning of those cabalistic symbols." The undergraduates had begun to make up words t

r, "it's Curious Customs:-a new

under-classmen who think themselves funny; it isn't worth talking about," an

n to make jokes about it. "Look, here," one w

any part of the town; Bronson, a Junior, paid half a dollar for

come," answer

it was a poster to make the undergraduate world excited. It was in the college colors, for one thing, the paper being orange and the lette

12TH, AT NOON,

ecitations of both upper and lower classes are over, and no one has anything immediate to attend to. The next day, by the time the bell in

barrow heaped high with a mass of small orange-and-black objects, and over them waved an orange banner on which were

words, "Made from the purest materials, in the most careful manner, by a secret receipt in the possession of Fraulein Hummel of New York." On the ot

ng so worked up over a small affair. "Is that all it is?" everyone thought, and some noisy Sophomores

. Besides, the boxes looked very neat, and the simple inscription on them sounded very attractive. Also it was seve

rm, announcing to everybody as they did so, "We are going to have some C. C. We must have C. C.," and bought a box, which they pr

" and then they marched through the crowd munching and saying, "We are the

to show they, too, were joking, went over to

n, made bold to approach the wheelbarrow, and finally even a Senior or two, "just to see what they were like, anyw

white making change, found his wheelbarrow empty, and went toddling off to have it replenished; wh

unching the other in the ribs, and saying: "Well, well! Deacon, well, well! Your little

ite of himself. "It'll keep on working all right, you see if it doesn't. T

aid Lucky, exultingly; "otherwise you wouldn't have hear

ms, during their walks, on the way to lecture-rooms, and even inside. They sent them home to their sisters and to their roommates' si

ould; but there remained a good, steady, normal demand

ean back and enjoy life like Todd and the r

at the bottom of the C. C. business, and the college said: "What! that big,

don't see why they still call me green. I should think by this time"-then he looked down the table.

n the Deacon resented it. Why? A few months ago

ors, Jimmy Linton, the philosopher, and Billy Nolan, the football

thing. You never can tell how they are goin

Say, Jim, that boy's going to make the

e team, but he's going to ma

o you

"He's in with a sporty crowd and is beginning

our ability to size people up, but I don

ates talk so much about things he used to abhor that he's got accustomed to them, and he's ceased to abhor them. But h

Young's not

ttled the young man from the country. Success has turned his head. He's flattered at being take

mea

big, green giant. He wants to make himself like the rest of the-Invincibles,

, but in the big, outside world-people that ought to know better, people you'd never expect

nity of giving the big Freshman a friendly tip, for they knew him well enough by this time. And bo

ng. Billy Drew one morning at breakfast was telling about his experience

s taking off my coat in the hall. Go on." So Drew went on in the grinning, boastful way of a certain sort of

re looking at him. Here was his chance to show them he was not so stiff and sober and green as they imagined.

om the Deacon again. That seems a very little thing, bu