Show A Scotch Joke Philadelphia Ledger College boys are incorrigible practical Jokers A story com cornea comes to us from rom Scot Scotland Scotland land of ot an examiner at Edinburgh h lint uni university who vho had bad made himself obnoxious by warning the students against putting g their hats bats on his desk The university in the Scottish capital is remarkable for fora fo foa a scarcity of ot cloak rooms and In the ex excitement of ot examinations hats bats are o 01 used to be flung down anywhere The Tb examiner announced one day that if he h e found another hat on oa his desk he would woul 5 rip It I up The next t day no hats were laid f fd there b f when w the students s n assembled S mb Presently however the examiner was wa a called caned out of the room Then sam some C wicked undergraduate slipped sUpped from his hi seat got the examiners own hat bat and an placed it on his desk When the ex ez examiner reentered the hall every eye was W Wa s fixed on him He observed ned the thc hat and a 4 agleam gleam of a triumph shot across his face Gentlemen he said I told you what wha would happen if this occurred again Then Thon he took his penknife from his hi pocket opened it and blandly cut the th bat In pieces amidst prolonged applause What he skid said s ld when he h discovered that It I Iwas was his own hat is not even in I Gaelic |