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ptn-JVlar. ""'( ~'said ML Dooley, "it docs .z: these collige prcfissors behave whin they gits the all bate r ''-'~hallst. 1 raycollict 'twas in me Senior year at wist'rn Maryland that me class wintto Pin Mar. Pin Mar is a foine place an' we had a foinc time but we didn't injyc it half so much as the teachers. They was the Junior Profissor who taught Latin an' Greek an' bedad but the Docthor was a quare chap. He had whiskers on his face, he did, an' nawthin' atop IVhis hid. Iv'rybody said he was smart [\]1' had lots of bray-ins in his hid. But he kipt it quiet an' I'r to hear him talk yc nivcr wud bav got onto the fact. Thin they was Miss -, an' she was a lovely woman in toirley. I »iver saw a eray" chure witl a 1110re admirable disposition or more cunnin' ways. The gyurls all liked her, they did, an' the Docthor wanted to; but 'twas she was that ar-tful ye wudn't imagine, the darfin t, an' she kept him oneasy an' in thres ted all the toime. 'v'Twas loikc this, Hinnissy. The Senior gyurls reached the station all r-roight. wid their COl11 plexions tinted the proper color, an' they was jist beginnin' to wondher where the bhcys was whin the thrain whistled. The bhoys. loike me frinc1, Philip Sbericla», was yit some distcance away. The gyurls begin to feel anxious 'cause they wanted to go to Pin Mar, an' to go widout a bhoy wud be loike angels wid out har-rps. That's H poetic sintiment f'r yex. Gut they said they was goin' armyho w, bhoys or no bhoys, yit they wai tetl a bit longer. Thin the thrain whistled agin, the conductor yilled," All aboard.' whin the bboys ran into the station. They was no toime F'r purchasin' tickets. The gyurls got in an' all the hhoys but foive who said they wud come be the next thrain, the Blue Mountain Express. 'Twas funny, downright funny. Only four iv the class had army t.iekets an' ol1ly wun iv thill1 had anny llloncy to speak iv. Vle "las aU broke-heart broke. An' foive iv the gyurls had very sad looks on their hivinly countenances. - - 180 - -