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Title: At good old Siwash
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George, 1877-1915
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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her and called in calculus andsecond sight on the problem. I remembered whatthe Hicks girl had said to me the year before. Thatwas more than the ordinary girl ought to know aboutpolitics. I remembered seeing her doing more orless close-harmony work with the other midnight-oilconsumers — and the upshot was I went over to(Browning Hall that night and called on her. She came down in due time — kept me waitingas long as if she had been the belle of the prom —and she shook hands all over me. My dear boy/ she said, sitting down on thesofa with me, I m so delighted to renew our oldfriendship; Now, I dont like to be my dear boyed by aSophomore, and there never had been any old friend-ship. I started to stiffen up — and then did nt.I didnt because I didnt know what she would doif I did. How are all the other good old chaps ? she saidas cordially as could be. ^ My, but those were granddays. I did nt see any terminus in that conversation.(Besides, she looked like one of those most uncom-
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How are all the other good old chaps? she said Page 270 Votes From Women ^ 271 fortable girls wlio can guy you in sucli an innocentand friendly manner that you dont know what tosay back. So I brushed the preliminaries aside andjumped right into the middle of things. MissHicks/ says I, ^ why are you doing all this ? ^^ Singular or plural you ? she asked. Andwhy am I or are we doing what, and why should nt.we? Help/ said I, feeling that way. Do you denythat you have nt been instrumental in upsetting thewhole college with those fool elections ? I am a modest young lady/ said she, so, ofcourse, I deny it. Besides, this college is nt upset atall. I went over this morning and every professorwas right side up with care where he belonged.And, moreover, you must not call an election a foolbecause it does nt do what you want it to. It canthelp itself. Miss Hicks, says I, feeling like a fly in an acreof web, ^^ I am a plain and simple man and nothandy with my tongue. What I mean is this, and Iho

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