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be proud of it? Surely it is a phenomenon by no means to be despised. It isn't everyone that can boast of such great family achievements. Miss Hobbs has a wonderful faculty for. telling stories. She has held her classmates spellbound while repeating that "once upon a time" and so on. And best of all is that she is the author of them. She is very popular and is always anxious about her friends' affairs. Her age is nineteen. Thou, too, Cambridge, renowned city of the Eastern Shore, can'st boast of a great man. Hazelton Austin .Toyce hast rendered thy name famous. Scrappy, as he is better known, is a wonder. This name, Scrappy, was put upon him by reason of his deeds of prowess. He says, and by the way, what he says is irre- futable, that when four men came to haze him, he knocked six of them down. He played football, too. At Gettysburg, on Thanksgiving Day of '96, he played left tackle, and although the whole Gettysburg team tried to put him out of the game and broke four ribs and a leg and an arm and sprained his ankle in trying to do so, yet he played 011. Scrappy says he is twenty years old. During that time he has had a girl four times and has been engaged as often. It was the same girl each time, and the same three-dollar ring which was used on each occasion. He is still open for engagements. Some dreams are wonder- ful harbingers of coming events. Scrappy dreamed one night, after he had broken his girl's heart for the third time by redemanding his ring, that he died and went down into the lower regions. He was tried on the charge of fickleness and fabrication, and condemned. He on hearing his penalty read, which was that he should drink molten lead for a million years, started to run away, but was caught-and waked just in time to save his life. Absent-mindeclness is to be deplored in any man. It seems though that this quality characterizes many great men. Scrappy, for instance, went up stairs one day to change his collar, and when he came to himself he was sound asleep in bed. The above facts were obtained from Hazel himself, and, of course, their validity cannot at all be brought into question. To his classmates he is a mystery, a vaga- bond star. Twenty years ago there was born in Leeds, Md., Elsie Roberts McCauley. During her childhood she was called Elsie, but after her entrance to College she acquired the name of Mickey, a title which has clung very closely to her ever 51