Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1891 [PAGE 28]

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I thought and thought, Ami tried

TO w r i t e .

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With all Mv might, But brought forth naught. I tlu-n t up and took a walk around my room, looking at various work- of nrt which adorned tinwall k i n g to t h a w i n s p i r a t i o n from t h e m .

Ami then, again,

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Me down, Began

To frown.

And t my pen. I held that pen with <:• peration : bnt, do what I would. I lldn ay thing to flow from its point but

ink. I black, lifele t h o u g h t l e s s ink. I swore, and tore

My hair

In vain :

\ an< i I " roll of i - my feet.

Then, full 01 pain, I R rht the door. the fresh air might do me ood : • tr«*et, with I "blui U 1 1 8 and the rotten idewalks on

. t' h Ik now I worked

j j I was n Friday evening uch a Fridi I evening i o many visitors a v. *' from the societies,—when four Beri< nous students v re wading through the< I unpaign Bide walks to their r < They 1 1 ceased to cril icise the Dumb n thi ocief . program and were arranging, y < .1.1. above the noise of the ram,a plan to give a 1 I a pleasant surprise and to spend the remainder of the evening in a social way. At last, proriding themselvi with the necessaries for ich an occasion ( oysters, pi< .. i they dropi 1 in upon their unsuspecting friend. The oysters were soon t wing merrily in the pan over the little alcohol lamp and tin euchre deck was murdering time in its usual merciless manner. Thus, all too >n, passed tin* evening which is Buch a pleasant - in the monotony of a student's lire. With many a merry joke and hearty laugh the hours won by until II was early morning—very early morning when each one reluctantly withdrew

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secretly h o p i n g that

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quite oseverelyas he knew it probably w Id, < and also thai he would rise in time the club before the boys had all finished tb< breakfast. St i age i" say, om » 1 i 1 pie -U»\ ing students had u dream! In the few houi which wi • lefl till the whistles \ aid Mow

and warn him t hat it w as t line to rise, ll he i i m i i h told i t 1 thrilling c \ p e n e n i

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