The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899, February 25, 1898, Image 3
1MB HI EQ D UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MyIAjK Vol. XXVU. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 25, 1S0S. TII12 MTTwIw. Baptized with sunlight., time ruined, stands the mill. Here hopper tilts with broken leg and bold The mill-stone's flinty face defies the gold Which floods all else. Xo roof a rotted sill. Half buried floor. Leaning on the hill The wheel, deep clothed in mosses fold on fold Crash' A in the ruin, the buckets do not hold The stream, which seeks in truant path the rill. King Rust has claimed the gear, odce worn and bright. Deep-crumpled lies the meal-spant; 'neath its bail A wren has built., and now with parlance shrill Instructs her brood, in science of the flight From tall box tree, and scolds with jerk of (ail. As blatant stands the calf beneath the hill. Steve J, No. 21 Corey. The Frj-ing: Pan. 1 "know he is a long-headed fellow because it is such a great distance from his cerebrum to the tip of his tongue. Wo didn't call him the "Old Brof." because we loved his mathematics, but bucause we loved Mm. He knew, I suppose, all that the best mathematicians of the day were accom plishing, and ho changed his method if he found another which seemed better. He was a perfect instructor, and the fellows all worked hard for him. Rut wo liked him better when wo found him at some leasuro moment and let him talk to us, or when, as wo stood in the hall or on the stops discussing college politics he would come up, join the group and enter into the contest with his usual heartiness. He never deemed it beneath his dignity lomake himself one of us. If he met us on the street and walked our way, what a jolly observer he would be for the time being, never talking either his shop or ours. But one thing that the boys loved to do the Old Prof, despised. Only once, when wo were celebrating some event did we toss the Old Prof. When we brought him down he aid simply -Bqys, I -wish you wouldn't, I wish you wouldn't. My brother was crippled for life that way.'' And it. was several years, after all of us who heard h!m say that had loft college, before anyone was tossed again in our college. The Cook. "Bobo" looked out into the yard and screamed, kicked his little feet against In door joint and laughed and screamed until the chickens ran and cackled. Then he climbed on top of the little gate which barred his pas sage and rolled down on the "outside. He plucked a grewt, fluffy dandylion and stuek it in his month, lip grinned as it tickled the roof of hi mouth then pulled it ouf and thoughtfully plucked it to pieces. He toddled across the yard to the plgnpon and crawled through a crnok between ttlho rails. The big white sow came up to him and grunted. Bobe tried to ei-awl up on liar head as she stuck her nose into the mud in the bottom of the pou. Site shook her head and ho rolled over and over in the mud. He sat up and surveyed his black, dripping hands then ap plied one to his face. The old sow roDted up the mud at his side 4v& lay -down, .and then Bobe made mud balls and piled them on her back. Cameras Dry Hates Films Car ds- 'Printirujg Tcufw at LINCOLN PHOTO SUPPLY CO. 181 So 1'Ub-street