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idly watching the the great pine trees swaying to and fro in the breeze. Gay snatches of from the hotel near by broke in upon my reverie. As if in a dream my thoughts wandered back over the past years to my girl- hood. Many pleasant scenes pass in rapid succession before my inner con- sciousness. Once more I am on the campus of Western Maryland College, one of a train of black-robed girls and boys. Though in gloomy dress we have a It is the familiar commencement procession in gown. As we march along to the inspiring strains of "Ein Feste Burg" no doubt we present an interesting to the reader of the human countenance. \Ve are all But the cums ' are humbly glad that they the others. The'; cum tri umph. as the warranted ~ 1 wish 1 could see them all once more." uttered these words when I cried out, this in amazement, "\·Vhat this rnedireval apparition that ventures to brave the clear-seeing eyes of a twentieth century woman?" 1 shook my- self. I pinched myself. I found I was not asleep, and all the while the of my astonishment regarded me with a expression, maintain- an unbroken silence. But perhaps would to know what it was that threw me such a state of agitation. It was nothing more nor less than the diminutive figure of the oddest little man that ever appeared before the eyes of a latter day skeptic. He W,lS standing on the edge of the veranda in the most whimsical attire. His doublet and knee-breeches were of hLInter's green. I-I is stockings were scarlet and so were his shoes. The crowning glory of his costume was his broad green hat with two large silvery plumes. The little man apparently was alive to the incongruous nature of the for he looked amused beyond expression, and at last broke into a short laugh and said, "You are not dreaming, I am a though I suppose you would call me an 'em- bodied fancy.' I am the of spontaneous wishes uttered on mid- -r cr s-