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WoetsMe!

TIE time was Friday C\ ening, and the place was all over the campus and through all the barracks.
For the truth ol the 1natter was our hero- ! suppose we will ha\·e to call him a hero, thoug-h
he has never done anything iike Dewey has- but, as I s~id, our hero was in a desperate strait.
To use the ordinary language of the ordinary boy, he \\''ls '' broke.' ' lie was not only short
of money, but, to make matters worse, he was in debt. His laundry bill for the past month
was unpaid, his incidental fccs for the term were due, his board hill was staring- him in the
face, and he owed e\·cry one of his friLnds so much that he could not see how he was e\'er to
pay them hl'fore commencement.
But this was not the end of his troubles-he was in lo\'e, and so desp~rately so was he
that he did not thi11k he could exist away from the fair object of his adoration, and it was
uttcrly impossible for him to suln~ the problen1 of how he could part fron1 her afkr conJmence-
ment. But just now the present miseries had dri\·en away all thought of the future troubles.
As I ha\'e said, it was Friday nig-ht; there was to be au opera in town aud he was
" broke." H e had spent his last dollar the night before in purchasing seats for himself and his lad), aud, h~l\·iug
a few cents left, he decided to buy some candy to tickle the palate of his beautiful fairy.
(Oh , girls, what troubles you do bring your admirers into sometimes! )
The only caudy he could fiud to suit his purse was some peanut candy and some stripcd stick candy , so he
purchased a nickel 's worth of each and w< nded his way toward the barracks, happy in the thought that fur one
time he could treat his creditors all alike.
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