THE HESPERIAN
in history. You'd bettor boliovo that I
would pass.
I thought that I would study this p. m.
and fill up for that American history, but I
got too nour a girl and Harper's Weekly in
tlio library to do anything. Say, but isn't
Miss X. pretty? Just wait till I'm grown
up. After supper I commonced to study in
good earnest, when tho boys came along and
wanted mo to go to tho show. I couldn't
miss "Fiiends," so I went, first taking out
u book to study between acts. I had a talka
tive neighbor, so here I am writing this rec
ord of tho day, with tho book by my side,
that I have never opened from the moment
I took it. How will I ever get through to
morrow? Tuesday What will tho governor say?
Flunked Hat, and broke, too. If I don't
send for some money before tho rocord of
to-day's exam, reaches him, ho will take me
out of school, and then I'll have to work.
Only two questions in history. Just what I
was looking at when I wont to tho show last
night. I admire the professor for that first
question. It was, "Tie a double bow-knot in
the history of tho revolution so that when
looking at the south loop, tho English policy
will bo apparent, and when viewing the
north loop tho American policy will be
shown. Now, I could always tio a good
four-in-hand, but tioing bow-knots is the
duty of girls. I wonder if they passed all
right?
The next question completely stumped me.
It read, "gather from the fuliginous vacancy
of your cerebral interior all the material
concerning Goorgo Washington that you pos
sess, and bind it together securely with tho
cords of your memory, then take his fabled
hatchet and chop off small pieces and hand
them in graphically arranged before your
departure from this room." After having
chuckled three times in rapid succession, and
having pulled out from his hip pocket
the New York Lodger, the professor buried
himself in the editorial column and left us
to our cogitations. Had we not lived in this
great and glorious nineteenth century, we
would have been compelled to ask him what
ho mount. As it was somo of us simply
flunked.
Went to tho show again to-night. All
tho professors toll us not to cram. One must
have somo recreation in this vale of sorrow.
Wednesday 01 Muses 1 Pardon my in
tho German speech unpractices. I have not
in this world long been, and I fear that I in
thia world a very short time bo shall, if mercy
spreads not her wings and on my head lights.
If I could not invent a langungo that has
a recoginizod first and last part to its senten
ces, I'd collapse. Who cares a continental
for cases and order. I have had my Dutch
exam!! Oh! unmerciful prof. !! Would that
thou could'st bo brought unto judgment.
How is this for a question ? "Now class,
I have been pleased with your work this
term, you have done better than tho class
hist year ; so I am going to givo you an easy
tost. Now yon may simply 0 fatal word,
it sealed my doom simply take the last
chapter in your books for a sight translation.
I want to try a now scheme with you. You
may have the use of all notes but don't look
at tho text, don't look at tho print, guess at
tho last chapter. Hold tho closed book up
before your eyes and by a process of hypnotic
telepathy road the inclosed matter. This is
very simple. It is only a step beyond what
you have boon accustomed to, viz: guessing
at tho words when they wore before your
eyes. " This was veritably what a girl would
term a corker. Tho name I would append
doQS not look well in print; so in this, my
diary, I will leave one line blank. Gentle
reader, this blank line is what I called tho
exam.
It was just a necessity to go to the show
to-night. Had I not gone I would have
burst. My feelings ran so high. My, but
tho seats that sell for two bits aro hard
especially when they aro sat on every night.
It pays, however, it pays. I'll show it, I'll
show it, though I flunk.
Thursday What on earth ever possessed
mo to go to tho show last night. Why
didn't I stay at home and stop up tho vacant