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Title: At good old Siwash
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George, 1877-1915
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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y. I am engaged to all of them. The eruption of Vesuvius was only a little sputterto what followed. For a moment we had hopes thatold Scroggs would explode. I think if he had had usthere alone he would have tried to hang us. Butevery tyrant has his master, so before long we beganto see the halter on old Scroggs. And his daughterheld the leading rope. She let him rave about solong and then she retired into her pocket-handker-chief and turned on a regular equinoctial. Scroggslooked more uncomfortable than we felt. He tookher in his arms and there was a family reconciliation.Every little while Martha would look over his shoul-der at us four hopefuls sitting up against the wall aslively as wooden Indians, and then she would buryher face in her handkerchief again and shake hershoulders and writhe with grief — or maybe it wassomething else. Martha always did have a prettykeen sense of humor. Suddenly Scroggs remembered us and we went outof the house like projectiles fired from a very loud
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O >,S When Greek Meets Grouch 75 gun. We cussed each other all the way home — wethree athletes. We would have cussed Driggs, but hesneaked the other way and we lost him. The next morning we went up to police court in ourold clothes. Judge Scroggs looked at us sourly whenour turn came. ^^ Young men/ he said, my daughter has ad-mitted that she has been foolish enough to engageherself provisionally to all of you, with the idea ofchoosing the hero in this afternoons games. I do notadmire her taste. I think she is indeed reckless tofall in love with collegians when there are so manyhonest cab drivers and grocery boys to choose from.But I have, in the interests of peace, consented toallow you to compete this afternoon. You are dis-charged. I do this the more willingly because Ihave seen you here before and shall again. Youmay go. We did go, and when we got through that afternoonthe knobby-legged athletes from our rival schoolslooked like quarter horses plowing home just aheadof the nex

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