ill coLLEUL ri:mim&ce>ces. 



per slory, I see. These your children, Dick ? — the iiiosl beautiful clier- 

 ubs i ever saw — you must have an angelic wife, — no wonder, such 

 beautiful children, when father and mother are so handsome." "Pshaw! 

 — cease your gabble, Tom," said I, "and sit down." This was Tom 

 W — , whom I had not seen for some years. He was a wild, frolicking, 

 extravagant youngster, whose father was rich and liberal. I have known 

 Tom to treat a room full and bleed freely to the amount of !^10 or ^12 

 before the parly broke up. [There were intolerable spojiges at our col- 

 lege in those days, — are there any now ? — they would stick to a free 

 young man like leeches and suck him dry, and never spend a 

 cent themselves.] Tom's habits of extravagance often run him into 

 debt, and it was said he left College, forgetting to settle certain claims 

 which the steward, tlie wash-woman, and sundry others had 

 a<<-ainst him. It has been said, perhaps maliciously, that many other 

 students are particularly forgetful on this point. W — was in the habit 

 of visiting me when he came to town, and I was somewhat ofiended at 

 his familiarity. He told me he was out of funds, — expected a remit- 

 tance in a few days and wished to borrow twenty dollars. 1 gave it to 

 him. He forgot his promise, and lo this day, he stands charged with 

 the sum aforesaid in my books. I have not seen him since. I have 

 heard that he has laid several others of his old fellow students under 

 similar obligations. 



" You are in the wrong room, Sir." " I piesume not. Sir, the servant 

 directed me to this room and here 1 intend to sleep, and you'll have no 

 objections to my company when you know who I am. " This conver- 

 sation took place between me and a student of medicine, at a tavern in 

 W — . I knew he boarded there and requested the servant to give me a 

 bed in the room the student occupied. He did not know me when I 

 entered, but as 1 uttered the last words, I took the candle and approach- 

 ed the bed in which he was lying. ^' Why, Dick, is this you } 1 did 

 not know you, or I would not have thus addressed you. " We had 

 been fellow students at College, but he had been expelled for destroying 

 College property, firmg the temple of Cloacina in a frolic. We spoke 

 of old times, and brought up many a freak of by-gone days, but 1 ob- 

 served that his laugh was subdued and he easily relapsed into melan- 

 choly. " Ah ! Dick, " said he at last, " I am not a happy man, I am not 

 the gay lad I was when at College. " •' Lost your father, " I asked, " or 

 low in funds ,>" '• None of these, but worse than either." "What 

 can be worse.'" '■'■ The hitter remcmhrance of heing expelled from 

 college^'''' and he concealed his head under the cover. He soon recov- 

 ered from \m i\ci:^ emotion and told mc all his feelings. He appeared 



