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Doc. [to the boy.j-c't Sirl what have you to say in you r own behalf?" Boy.-" 1-1-1 did-d didn't do it." Dac.-"Jury retire and bring in your verdict, but remember, that our authority hangs in a balance, and that our future power for tyranny and ex- tortion rests upon your verdict." They retire. This is the conversation of the jury room: Uncle [immy:-:" Ubinam gentium sumus l I am astounded that this should be called a Christian college." Hussey.-" Das ist gut. Did nothing. He's free.' S~lmpaix.-" Mossieur Bonnette thinks he is guilty, and I don't know, but r guess he is innocent." JVloare.-"The boy hasn't got sense enough to do such a thing." I-IOltOIl.-" I see nothing to convict him." The roll is called and the jury returns. Doc.-" Your verdict, please." UncleJimmy [as foreman.]-"We find the prisoner not guilty." Doc.-"0l1, ye intriguing rascals! Yc plotters against my authority! Ye violators of my decrees! Your verdict shall be reversed." "Oui, ani," cried the Frenchman, again. Doc=" He shall go home on this evening's train if I am president of this college." "Te hee," snickers Roly. "Pvc gota cinch on my job since 1 have courted and won the favor of the great sovereign, ancl the others have lost." But be forgets that" oui." The boy, though innocent, is made to leave. The student body accompanies him to the train, and makes him the idol of the haul'. That night bonfires tell or the students' anger, and effigies of the obdurate judge and the silly crier furnish fuel for popular indignation, but the officersof this once renowned court go early to bed. Since then the school has declined. By that decision force triumphed over right. TheJudge is still the president, as of yore. The Frenchman has taken the place of the dean, and still cries" cui," even in his sleep. Rely is no longer prosecuting attorney to tyrannize over the boys, but, as he stilI wishes to make it warm for them, he remains at W. M. C.-happy in the thought of other times-as a hod carrier and a maker of fires. 161