MEETING OF OLD SCHOOLMATES. 1/ 



tell you what boy — alas, that he has left us — 

 could best kick the foot-ball, could best wres- 

 tle, run fastest, was the most athletic gymnast, 

 was the most jovial youngster, though perhaps 

 the laziest student of us all — Henry Ward 

 Beecher. " John, I never envied anybody but 

 you," he said not long ago, ''and that only 

 once. It was when you threw the spit ball at 

 old Master Colton, and hit him square on the 

 top of his bald head. I always missed him." 



We had a festive night, closing it with a 

 sound sleep, won by exercise and pleasant 

 reminiscences. In the morning a hearty break- 

 fast, a warm adieu, and then a gallop back to 

 Mohegan, stopping again for lunch at the. cas- 

 tle built by '' Hackaliah Bayley, who imported 

 the first elephant into these U-nited States — 

 old Bet ; of course you've heard of old Bet." 



Now you too have heard the story, if you 

 have never heard it 'before, and you know how 

 two days may be passed enjoyably in the 

 country in winter, while you are lying in bed, 

 or loafing at your club, or in the-hands of some 

 doctor whose interest it is not to recommend 

 to you the practice of equestrianopathy. 



