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Show Tom Reed's Favorite. Whon tho lato Thomas B. neod was a student at Bowdoln College ho mado a boating trip with somo fellow students, stu-dents, and, tholr boat capsizing, thoy wero cast awny without any food on a llttlo sandy Islet Just largo enough to afford them rofugo. Hero they remained re-mained in a famishing condition for several hours, when thoy wero rescued and taken off. During this Interval they trlod many oxpodlonts to whllo away tho tlmo, and nmong them ouch ' was to signify his favorlto poet and poem. Whon If camo Rood's turn ho said: j Well, I think I llko boa that fellow ! Gray, and his "Odo on a Distant Prospect Pros-pect of 'Eat'n.' " |