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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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* The Advent of Dr. Peabody 41 At length with the dawning of day came the anxiously awaited tomorrow; In fact it was come before dawn, for tomorrow gets up rather early. They dragged along until noon but with noon came the terrible tidings That a gang of stout Sophs had been seen on a road leading out of the city With a star of the Juniors in tow or more correctly in handcuffs, Who nobly battled in vain as the gang made tall time for the timber. The poem continues with stories already told of the release from capture of the Juniors, and of the overturning of the street car, and of the Sophs and the people marching into the chapel while we all suffered from the fumes of the "Eye Water." The poem describes the devastation created by the fumes and telling of the laughter caused by the venerable old gentleman in the front row who took off his overcoat and placed it over a register thinking that was where the fumes were coming from. It finally ends in despair, expressing the fear that the day would never come when Sophomores and Juniors could ever live together in peace. This fear is happily passed; we may yet live to see the day when even the savages of Europe will find a way to live in peace. God hasten such a day! %
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