Identifier: atgoodoldsiwash00fitc (find matches)
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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you on a little ride over tocollege. Got a nice gentle cow-pony out here. Shebucks as easy as a rockin-horse. Dont mind aboutyour clothes. Just hop right on. The boys is someanxious to get along, it being most classtime. We followed the two of them out to the back yard.There were seven Rep Rho Betas on seven moth-eaten ponies which they had dug up from goodnessknows where. The rigs they had on representedeach fellows idea of what a cowboy looked like,and would have made a real cowpuncher hang him-self for shame. Petey confessed afterward that, ofall the Rep Rho Betas, only seven had ever been ona horse, and, of these, three kept him in agony forfear they would fall off and compel him to explainthat they were on the verge of delirium tremens.They were a weird-looking bunch, but, gee! they werefierce. Pirates would have been kittens beside them. I guess the Reverend Pubby had never done muchin the Centaur line, for he came very near balkingentirely right there. It took us ^yq minutes to
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O C3 Colleges While You Wait 125 explain that there was no other way of getting out toSiwash and that the Faculty would take it as apersonal insult if he didnt come. We also had toexplain how disagreeable the Faculty was when itwas insulted. And then after he had consented wespent another five minutes hoisting him aboard aprehistoric plug and telling him how to stick on.Then the line filed out through the alley with a regu-lar ghost-dance yell, while we detained Petey. Wewere about to massacre him for leaving us to sweat allmorning, but we forgot all about it when Petey toldus what he had been doing. He admitted that, inorder not to annoy the profs and cause unnecessaryquestions, he had taken the liberty to build a tem-porary Siwash College for this special occasion. Yes, sir; nothing less than that. You rememberDillpickle Academy, the extinct college in the westpart of town? It had been closed for years becausethe only remaining student had gotten lonesome.But most of the equipment w

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