Show Literary Supplement Student Life Intercepted The Captain leaned impatient- ly against the tree watching the moon come up from behind the house “I wonder why tho"e men are so long with the horses I old them we could only rest five minutes We’ll never over- able Come back and I will tell you what I know” He waited silently while she looked reflectively up at the moon “Let me see it was while I was reading to grandmother and that was — well I don’t re member exactly how long ago take those rebels” but it seems about — but tell me” “What did you say Senor?” The Captain instinctively jerk- and she looked down at him ed his hat off and looked hastily coquet i' lily “how do you know I’ll tell you the truth maybe I’m up at the balcony “I beg your ” was just a rebel too pardon Senorita — I “If you are and if other rebels thinking” Slie laughed “Senor should are like you why we can never uot thing aloud It is a bad hoep to beat them” he replied “As The Poet Says” The Tragedy of SAPIENT SAYINGS GOOD TO Mrs Frog HAVE ON THE TIP THE TONGUE Every College Graduate Need Them 1 time “Wake up Mrs Frog it is ’’and the muskrat came close to the shore to Will carry on the friendly morning nearly day-brea- k chat — t— Ve O’ Mrs Frog gave a long drowsy shall print from time to meet choice quotations often croak and hopped down to him “Good morning dear musk- heard and always appreciated hence good to know To know rat you are out early” “Yes” and the musk-ra- t them is to possers a sourse of oft winked a fishy eye “I wasn’t recurring pleasure to one’s self-an- d to others Clip them and dissipating last night like my friends at the frog colony I “get them” could hear your sweet voice until Nothing Good or Evil is but Shake- long after bed time” ihinking makes it I “Wlhy dear Mr Musk-ra- t speare gallantly habit” frog-egg- s to She laughed “You should “Heaven is not reached at a sing- was just singing my “I do not think all my thought! The dear shiny little sleep le bound aloud or I hhould be saying have lived in a more chivalrous are lying quietly over But we build the ladder by which things what a charming effect the moon age Senor Captain” on there under that willow-tre- e we rise A guard approached has on your hair” quietly a lily leaf” From the lowly earth to the vault“Ah Senor has learned how “The horses are ready Sir” “Are you sure they are quite ed skies “I thought I told you that we to make pretty speeches — but and a And we mount to its summit safe?” said the musk-ra- t tell me didn’t you say you were could only stop five minutes!” round by round” — Holland look of apprehension came sudrebels?” after some “I know Captain but one of Have a purpose live for some- denly into his face have ev we horses me and how the tell “Yes can you got long ay “I "aw a lily leaf floating on thing ” ” just caught him ago they passed the water this morning with sorm view in And that keep purpose “Are the men mounted?” “And how does the Captain frog eggs on it” “Yes know they passed?” Half the wrecks that strew lifes “Horrors!” croaked Mrs Frog Captain” ocean “Then we’l be off immediateas she hurried to the spot but “They came this way of course IIow long did yon say they If some star had been their there were no eggs to be seen ITa it been morp than an hour ly “I shall die if they are gone guide ago?” he demanded imperious- have been gone Senorita?” “Their horses were very tired Might have fdill been riding safe- Oh! my darling froglets” ly ly They searched the slough up “I am not to be ordered like and they were going slowly — I But they drifted with the tide” and down and finally in despair It has been think — ” she uttered a harp exone of your men stopped on the bridge to look over half an hour— an hour— five min- clamation and seemed busy wi h — Anon utes maybe” the vines “I don’t care how much a man the rituation “Yes” said the man impa- talks just so he says it in a few' Suddenly an idea seized Mrs “I am truly sorry that I spoke Frog and turning quickly she words” — Josh Billings so Senorita but I’m so used to tiently “you think—” “Be just and fear not let all held up a dainty frog leg to her commanding my men — and it’s “Oh Captain I have caught a dear Musk friend: “Good-byimportant that we overtake the thorn in my dress and I can’t the ends thou aimest at be thy and you have been very kind but my God’s Were they loosen it” insurrectos tonight country’s thy ’ life is worthless now” and with — Shakespeare riding fast? Did the horses seem “Isn’t there anyone in the trut h ’s “Life is the best possible thing that she leaped into the slough tired?” house you can call?” There was a splash and air bubwe can make of it” —Anon “Senor a"ks many questions “No one who could hear” Mrs noblest service comes bles came to the top but “The I them? answer should but why “And you can’t loosen it yourFrog was never seen again from nameless hands Does he think I have nothing to self?” And the best servant does his do but watch tiresome soldiers it is at the back I’m so w'ork unseen”— Lowell “No ride by?” to trouble you” “Truth crushed to earth shall “There’s never a leaf or “The Senorita can do as she sorry rise again The Captain paid nothing hut blade too mean to be some happy pleases of course I shall find The eternal years of God are scrambled hastily up the trellis-wor- tcreature’s palace” — Lowell at shall start we men and my hers “The cat in gloves catches no Just as he reached the once” He threw his half finishBut error wounded writhes in Richard toward Poor turned Senorita mice” the toward top and turned ed cigar away pain “Finds tongues in irees books him with a little deprecatory mothe creek And dies among his worshipbrooks loose itself in come has running tion “It y The Senorita leaned tremulous-lpers”— Bryant Sermons in stone and good in is too bad to keep you over the balcony clutching the Senor It “Trust no Future howe’er pleas-ant- i — Shakespeare so everything” long” can “Oh if I 1 1 e k railing tightly only keep him ten minutes lonThen aloud: ger” she breathed “Captain” she called timidly and as he turned she continued: “You must pardon my temper— I didn’t mean to be so disagree noticed the mischievous “Be noble and the nobleness that Let the dead Past bury its lies dead! gleam in her eyes and swore not but men In the other sleeping Act — act in the living Present! softly ns he dropped to dead Heart within and God ground and as he rode away he to meet thine Longfellow thought he heard a silvery laugh Will rise in majesty —Longfellow own from the balcony He o’er-head!”- |