Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1891 [PAGE 29]

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The silence of expectaiion, which al any nt's boarding-club, precedes the narration i story, was broken by, "Well, fellows, I ha a Rip van Winkle experience lasi night; but in -1 of sleeping only twenty years, I slepl 11 for tw hundred or more. "Oh, come down a little, please, ' interrupted some one, bui he went on. "Yes, more than two hundred years had el I, and, as I strolled along a beautiful ml gazed in wonder al the Strang wildings ana immense crowds of pi pie, ! was reminded of some greal display al one of our 1 larg il ies in our own I ime. •'I stipp I lool • rangely oul "l plac in thai • I hrong, in m\ prep, suil; bul t h < w no hi for it, and on< emed to pa j n ah ntion to my dress I fell reassured. I be lang i>- emed little si range as I heard •«l from the si reet-vend< tand; howit had J < i much bul thai I ild n I." • \ fl >ming m amazemenl al findelf in i J!ran uliful .1 -]><>!. I >nder 1 I happened to be 1 here of all pi in I w 1-1: bul 1 he n > \ n >on apparent; I jusl in fro il of me w n-

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