TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
just now. See him grit his teeth and sneak up behind. Watch him jump up in the air and land on his back with a yell. Look at 'em now, will you! They haven't seen each other for three months. If they want to express it that way they've got a right to. Hear them giving each other excuses for not writing letters. Yes, they do look pretty glad, that's a fact.
Now that you've got off your conditional examination and have matriculated you are part of the show. Of course you are, and are actually on your way to the opening exercises in chapel. It'll be a long time before you are boss of the whole thing, like those fellows, but you are part of it, you have a right here, you are a College Man at last! a member of the privileged leisure class—the real thing. Don't grin that way; I'm not guying you. This is a very serious conversation, to last all the way to the chapel door. After that you'll have to shift for yourself. Did you observe those youngsters sitting on the fence with brand-new swagger on their faces under that brand-new brilliant head-
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