the deluded expectation of securing a reward
for my apprehension; of how explanations were vouchsafed, showing that
while I, with utter justification, had regarded them as lunatics, they,
in their ignorance and folly, had, on the other hand, regarded me as
being mentally afflicted; and how finally, being removed by careful
hands to my place of residence, I remained a constant invalid, in great
mental and bodily distress, for a period of above a fortnight.

As is well known, my first act on being restored to health was to resign
the assistant rectorship of St. Barnabas'. And having meantime been
offered the chair of history and astronomy at Fernbridge Seminary for
Young Ladies at Lover's Leap in the State of New Jersey I have accepted
and am departing on the morrow for my new post, trusting, in the classic
shades and congenial atmosphere of that well-established academy of
learning, to forget the unhappy memories now indissolubly associated in
my mind with the first and last camping expedition of the Young Nuts of
America.

I close with an added word of gratitude and affection for those five
gallant lads, Masters Horrigan, Pope, Ferguson, E. Smith and H.
Smith--but particularly Master Pope, to whom I feel I indeed owe much.

(Signed) Very respectfully,
ROSCOE TITMARSH FIBBLE, D.D.

_PART TWO_

_Being an Open Letter Addressed by Dr. Fibble to One Sitting in a High
Place._

_Elsewhere in France_

_To His Excellency the Honourable Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of America, White
House, Washington, D. C., U. S. A._

RESPECTED SIR: Ever since my return from the zone of hostilities it has
been my constant and abiding intention to take pen in hand for the
purpose of acquainting Your Excellency with the facts concerning the
harassing experiences undergone by the undersigned before, during and
immediately subsequent to the outbreak of war on the other, or Eastern,
hemisphere of this world. As you will observe, I now do so.

Until this time I have been deterred from setting forth my complaint by
a variety of good and sufficient reasons, which I enumerate:

Firstly--To me it appeared inevitable that this open letter, on its
reaching your hands, would result in a breach between Your Excellency
and your late Secretary of State, Mr. William Jennings Bryan. I
purposely refrained, therefore, from appr