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Conversations Overheard by Our Religious Editor

Lady to servant: "Bridget what did you do with the meat left from break-

fast ?" Bridget: "Faith mum, there wasn't iny left, so I giv it to the dog." Freshman girl to ditto: "Oh, Mary, don't you think Mr B 's lips are perfectly lovely, and they say that he is the best ball player in college" Time 11 p. m. Place, street on west side. Participants, Freshman "Kid Prep. "Kidess." Situation, Kidess' head on Kid's shoulder, Kid's arm around Kidess' waist. Conversation: Kid: "Alice, dear, don't you think that we may call this heavenly bliss?" Alice : "Yes, dearest Ed , I should be perfectly happy if—if only your hair wasn't quite so—so—decided an amber. There, Oh, dear, I've said it. I'm so sorry, let's kiss and make up." Finale. Smack! Sm Sm. Smack ! ! ! This so wrought upon our religous Ed. that he immediately went home, but on his way overtook a couple of men and could not help hearing the following: "Tell me Pat, what is the matter with you an'your swateharte?" "Oh ! Shamus, a strange thing has happened to me. You know a few Sunday avenings ago, I wint as usual, you know, to see my Lulu, a swater gurrl niver lived, may the virgin bliss her; and as usual, you know, I sat meself down in the rockin chair, and prisently, you know, she come and sat down beside me, and I was beginnin to fale quite at home, you know, whin all of a su lint she sez, sez she, 'Pat you've been drinkin !' Your mistaken, sez I, with ^nit becoming to a gentleman. 'Don't tell me I'm a liar, sez she, you've been drinking, and what's more I know what you've been drinkin.' What, sez J, I , nog,' sez she, 'I shmell the eggs. A, no, sez I, you must be jokin. T m no sez she, 'an I don't want to talk no longer with a miserable drunkard ' \\ you know, that made me kinder mad and I sez, good night, me fine lad id lift. Well, that night after I wint to bed, I got to thinkin about that eggnog, and do you know, Shamus, 1 solved the mishtery." You did, Pat, well tell me what it was." "Well you know, the night before \\ shman and I was wan of thim extra cops as Hi r Mayor Beech appinted to s elch thim bloodthirsty students." "Yis, Pat, but w! of that." 'Well, s \ know, dom it ! that what sweet Lulu took for eggno was wan ol thim tame Freshman sociable eggs, and—" But our Ed, reach, h home at th eating part of the conversation, a I * it in telling his on dii reli i that he had b< r to Urbana to a pray< let {a I had mi 1 tin a r « id to walk I