Show STUDENT LIFE isomer Easy to forget I talked chemistry to her to amuse her and she seemed to like it at least she didn’t call me down Was getting on famously Would have had that blue ribbon on my vest in thirty seconds if I hadn’t made another discovery I saw a chunk of carbon on her third finger as big as a stove It looked bigger It reduced my temperature to way down billion below zero and I sat there sputtering and looking distressed and then that ugly cuss of the picture came in O Lord wish I was dead !” “Well Johnny how did it wind up?” said Willie sympathy beaming from him like heat from a burner “What did you do?” “Willie” half sobbed Johnny as he straightened up “the reaction 149 was over in a hurry” He filled his pipe and continued sadly “that picture started it and that piece of carbon made it worse I’d soon had her in solution but for them Both of us were in distress don’t know which felt the worst Willie when a thing is supersaturated it needs a vigorous shaking or the introduction of a third substance to cause crystallization I experienced both That other devil was the third substance needed He came in and I crystallized out I separated myself from the mixture As I melted through the door I saw combination taking place That uglv devil had assimilated her and the blue ribbon was against his overcoat I'm going back to the lab” — 07 |