| Show self possessed aboy all new york sun there is no man in cornell university about whom better stories are told than prof hiram corson the shakespearian student and professor of english literature he ile has a peculiarly slow drawling manner of speaking it happened not so ver very I 1 long ago go that ithaca ww wu visited by a v very ery high wind that came up suddenly during the night blowing down trees tearing off roofs of houses and cutting up such otha other r capers as are usually the a accorded corded C privileges of a high wind the professor was living in cabadilla Cas Ca cadilla the big dormitory the bret intimation he and hia his wife had of the hurricane was when one of the big stone chimneys was blown i over and anti went crashing down through the skylights the professor sora s wife waa was in in an agony of terror and getting up from bed began to make hasty preparations for leaving the building all the while beseeching her husband who had bad not yet stirred to come out and as ail all at once with a frightful noise the great tin roof of the building was torn off by the wind with a scream mrs airs corton said to her complacent spousal oh hiram come do come the last day has surely come come and the only response she sh got was the drawling inquiry what in the night |
