nd in every boarding college throughout our land. Contraband
turkeys or geese, roasted in their room for supper, and intended for a
jolly party of friends who would collect together, were, of course,
quite common affairs. On one occasion, just as the odor had become very
exciting to their gastric organs, and the skin had assumed that tempting
brown hue betokening a near approach to perfection in their culinary
operations, the watchful tutor scented out either the supper or some
mischief, and rap-rap-rap was heard at the door. Every sound was
instantly hushed, and the offending bird was quickly transferred to a
hiding-place in the room. After some little delay, the door was opened,
with many apologies; and the tutor, looking suspiciously through his
spectacles, entered the apartment. "Very studious, gentlemen! very
studious, I see!" he said, glancing at the array of learned volumes open
before them. "Let me beg you not to injure your health by too close
application to books. But what a very curious smell! one would think you
had been carrying out the classical lessons contained in Apicius. Allow
me to examine: ah, Mr. Forsythe, I see that you grease your boots to
keep out the wet--a good precaution." So saying, he pulled out the nice
little goose from a new boot in the corner, to the mingled mortification
and amusement of the young men. "Suppers are doubtless agreeable things
at night," added the tutor; "but the worst is, that they often leave
unpleasant consequences the next morning: of course, you are aware that
you meet the faculty, to-morrow, gentlemen."

On another occasion, our two heroes were out all night, exerting
themselves strenuously for the public good. I suppose they thought that
if some of the impediments to familiar intercourse in the neighborhood
were removed, the state of society would be greatly benefited. Some such
grave purpose they must have had in view; for, in the morning, when the
inhabitants of the town awoke, they found to their surprise that all the
gates, small and great, had been removed from their hinges, and
collected in one large pile, in the middle of the Campus! To complain to
the faculty would do no good: it would only raise the laugh against
them. So, when any of the townspeople, or the farmers in the
neighborhood, came to select their gates from the pile, the cry was
given, "Heads out!" and from all the windows surrounding the Campus,
roguish eyes peeped forth, to watch the proceeding