_How, Though I was Ready for Service, I was Forestalled by a New Trouble, and the very Interesting Plan Which Came Out of it_ 276 CHAPTER XXXIII _Of a Village where Locomotive Whistles Sounded like Lingering Music: of the Esthetic Possibilities in a College Catalogue: of a Journey over the Hills to the College where we find, besides a Wonderful Array of Structures, a Large Room and the Junior with his Barnful of Furniture_ 282 CHAPTER XXXIV _My Wife Packs me off to College. The Senior and I Stop at a Rock for a Drink, Meet the Advance Guard of Students, Plunge into a Bedlam, and Witness the Labors of the Freshmen. The Finger-study of Quarles and my Apology Given to the Retired Medical Man who was Specializing in Hens_ 292 CHAPTER XXXV _Hot-Popovers and a Cold Watch in the Station. The Sleigh-load of Talent_ 315 CHAPTER XXXVI _A Chapter of Sentiment and Literary Atmosphere, Including the Account of Sanderson, the Procrastinator. How Two Prize Checks Were Spent. A Parish of Talent_ 323 CHAPTER XXXVII _Tieresias, the Blind Prophet, and Squeem, the Student in the Back-waters of College Life. A Night of Grim Fate_ 348 CHAPTER XXXVIII _A Chapter in which a Hero Does a Thing to his Credit_ 359 CHAPTER XXXIX _The Lost Parrot. Academic Burlesque. The Nervousness of the Final Minute. A Religious Outcropping in a Non-Pious Heart_ 379 CHAPTER XL _In Which the Account Comes to a Conclusion in the Life of a Relative. Martin Quotes Spanish, and has the_ LAST WORD 387 _Illustrations_ I APPEARED BEFORE THE PRESIDENT CONSIDERABLY UNNERVED _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE JASON, THE POET, LOOKED IN 76 EVANGELICAL UNIVERSITY WAS TREATED TO ITS FIRST MATCH GAME 142 SAY, HOW MUCH YO’ WANT FO’ DAT WATCH? 184 SO ARM IN ARM THE BLIND STUDENT AND I WALKED 350 THROUGH THE SCHOOL THROUGH THE SCHOOL [Illustration] _Chapter I. Fifteen Dollars and Sixty-five Cents Worth of International Travel. An Inspiring Reception in Front of Chief Pungo Memorial Hall_