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from Denton another delightful boat trip down the Choptank put LIS in Cam- bridge at 5 1). M. Here \V. Mace, '90, and Hazel '98, met us, and soon we were enjoying in the same Shore hospitality that had greeted 115 everywhere else. Monday was spent in various ways. Some of \15 took in the together with a few of the oysters; some of us spent afternoon driving om best girls; some of us in a pl'inting' office, having programmes printed to take tile place of those Dulany failed to send. That night in Independence Hall a fair crowd greeted us, in which we saw at least a few familiar faces. Next morning we made an start. \'Ye were to go back I1p the Chop- tank as far as Dover Bridge 011 a that sometimes left Cambridge at 6.3 0 . \Vc were all at tile wharf at 6.30, and the boat left shortly after 8. When wo.; reached Dover Bridge a man with a very red nose and a couple of spavined horses attempted to drive I1S the four miles that lay between us and Easton. Whether it was the nose or the I know not, but at rate that ride was not a success, for twice we to get out in order to further progress possible. At last, however, tbe towers of the Cathedral City came ill sight. Driving to the office of Register of Wills Roe, we were taken ill hand by his son, Hamilton Roe, '90-'9,1, and were 050011 enjoying the regulation Eastern Shore dinner, consisting principally of-everything that makes glad the heart of man. The principal event in Easton was the complete reversal of the condi- tions hitherto existing on the In place we had visited up to this time, all the boys in our crowd been assigned to places where girls were found, and if the two Crockett and Black- went out for an afternoon stroll, they would meet on every corner a \.y . M. C. man with a girl on each arm change! III Easton, Professors Crockett and Black went out with two channing Eastern Shore maidens, and the town seemed full of students conspicuous by their loneliness and b)' the utter absence of anything like femininity in their neighborhood That night in the handsomest hall we had yet in, a large crowd greeted us and received our numbers with appreciation applause. Next morning we again hac! to start by candle-light, Easton at 6-40 for the long trip to Seaford, by way of Clayton. The on the train was a jewel; he opened the rear car for and told us not. to let anyone else come in, and between stations he would come back and listen to Lane sing" Little Alabama Coon," or give, by "special request," his fa mons banjo swing. Seaford we reached about I P. ~f.-jl1st in time for dinner, and Christmas dinner at that. \'Ve had arranged with Superintendent Hurley, of the M. P. Sunday-school, to admit all his members at half-price, and when one hundred and twenty-five of these interesting little ones came in, wearing '38