Judge — May 31, 1884 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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; e might have been seen vile youth, who had) known ten sum- smnartly wending his way in a westerly ulong Adelaide strect towards the e of UL C. Colle; Ile was nied by an elder brother, with whom he strove in vain to keep up, so rapidly did that elder brother hurry along, for it was past the hour of nine. Th Atul the month it w My brothe James, b gentle youth was 1, myself, “1 . Whose name was t who was always called e | know not, had been for three and was looked up to by me with no little veneration and respect, on th strength of the wondrous tales he told of th proc at that ancient seat of learnir ef quorum pars maqua fuit, according own story, only he never said so in so words, for he despised the use of Latin as a for fags. What were Robinson Cruso dling goody-goody Swiss F: mer mily Robinson, in comparison to Ais moving tales? in Had he over the bar with ¢ acquired unlimited displayed? Had he not fought * Marvel, the minute and exact de which glorions combat he had often recount- ed to me, an eager listener? (N. 1B, In after days I discovered that my brother's relation of these transactions was somewhat apocry- phal, for, in point of fact, | both’ the sions badly servedly, utterly and ignomin But no matter, E accepted him ntended Boyle ame for the prov not nobly fisticufTs had been on nd not unde- sly “licked.” 18 an impar- tial and conscientious chronicler of passing events.) Had not my brother “Pag” been ot of his form fora whale yc nee in adhering te to my mind, the stern solidity er, and accounted for the un- yielding severity with which he tried to govern me at home. been caned times without number from the Prir downware nt? on the floor of the old * er Room” to en- dure the jibes and jeers of his more lucky fellow sinners who had escaped detection in in their evil doings; he had r rly every rtnight been ‘*disqualified,” though it would be hard to tell from w nay, he had more than once been ** benched,” and it was even whispered that he would very likely be expelled before long. Is it any t I looked up to my brother d_ to become a boy of con- by all th al “stood home that eventful morning I had congratulated myself on my decidedly neat upped Pp iment and apparel. My outer garments were new, of adullish grey color, so as not to show dust, and several sizes too large, to allow me to grow; high low shoes, polished to the bril- Tiancy of wide linen collar, witha beantiful blue bow; a peaked cap of bright green cloth, trimmed with a yellow cord and tassel—the latter playing cherry- bob with my nos Ina word, I presented, in my own eyes at least, such a gay and de- donnaire aspect that [ doubted not but that [ would at once take rank among my new comrades, as the very pink of fashion and the mould of form, and that, for the honor of our family, | would furnish an agreeable contrast to the slovenly appearance which The seen him comic as he ¢ newspaper 1 ails out Justice my elder brother inva thermore, in order to b a rintance of the ‘taffy shop,” the fame whereof had long ago come into my eal put into the left hand pocket of vest all the worldly wealth I could comr namely, two * Yorke a three-cent piece, two coppers borrowed (7) from my little sister in order to increase my peeu- iably presented, Fur ble to make the niary resources. I had, moreover, my we preserved double-bladed knife, given’ to me on my last birthday by my kind Uncle George, who, when he gave it to me, ex- pressed an earnest hope that I would lose no time in cutting my fingers off with it. 1 amply satisfied his desire, but I had clung to the knife, and valued it as the apple of mine eye. Alas! the first day I was at col- lege 1 was enticed to play the perilous game of “bullying” Knives, and my pi session Was soon reduced to utte terable dilapidation, anew slate, “twelve vs pos- and unut- I was also armed with by fourteen,” with whereon my name— Gilbert Denney—was neatly engraved in full; my ’ brothe r’sold books had naturally descended to me, snd though they wer other old things so often are, weak in the back and not so nice looking as they on had been, they were proudly carried by 1 loose under my arm, for [ had my own pri- vate and prudential reasons for declining my worthy progenitor’s offer of a stout new strap to bind my books together: for [ had my doubts as to whether, in the retired seclu- sion of our domestic bliss, it would not be otherwise employed. I was like with the half of a lemon, a “chunk rosin, and some horsehair; these art us Lhad been informed, of sovereign and most indispensable utility in cer- sponge tied to the fram: 0 of les ce Justice to poor wretches wl as he to who has him appears are brought before one never i ies which were likely nd whieh occupied the coll boys more » time than they do to-day, But Pmu with my sto shall never come to the end of it. Of prother and I were late for prayer no differ mu gh to be aly tain contingen frequently, ecur atten- in the stood him in for colle; when he was late eldom, and also when he * played hookey,” which wa: as often: ially on warm summer noons when bathing swimming y On the ve of the colle mine abar to the words of m to‘ tor, who forthwith conductes Princips y threshhold, did this h at the back door artless brother of y,” the jani- me up-stairs short inter- view—to me ble ag of suspense and anxiety—I was furnish with a alip of paper and sent to the fi form i i 3 were directed towards. me, hisper run round the reom ‘él not unmin- gled with an ominou Which, to my unaccustomed ears, to be ‘roast, ew boy, sour seomec roast. After presenting my credentials, as it {| were, to the master, vet with a becoming the foot of the form greeted with conside however, was promptly supp three urchins who had been som ment in their demonstrations up to the desk foot of the form, which, and at vehe- were called » and sent to the When matters had some comicbooks.com