TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
ing. I'm afraid it would gall him if he knew a mere Freshman saw through him. I hope you'll keep on smiling at this sort, and I believe you will, but at the same time after you have been here for a while and have begun to feel your oats you will begin to feel like sowing a few wild ones. I don't believe it will be because you are "in with a fast crowd and cannot say No." Most of that talk is such Tommy-rot. I never found it hard to say No, nor will you nor any one else but the weakest weaklings. What nonsense! "Evil companions," moreover, respect you for it—if you say it out loud. They are a pretty manly lot, even the worst of them. When I did things I was not sent to college for it was because I wanted to, and Dick—well, never mind, I'll speak of that later.
Here comes another upper-classman, a man of high and holy purpose, I'll bet; earning his own way through college, no doubt, to become a missionary or something good. You probably wish his back wasn't so awfully stiff. He does look as though he felt disappointed at not being considered a
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