Brown proceeded to read a chorus from Euripides, which impressed Sam as much as anything yet, for the Greek seemed but a strange and barbarous jargon to his unaccustomed ears.
"Do you understand what I have said?" asked Brown, at the close of his reading.
"Not entirely," said Sam,
"Then your education has been neglected. But it matters not. Raise him."
Jones and Robinson proceeded to lift Sam, one by the head, the other by the heels, rather to his alarm.
"What's your game?" he demanded, resisting.
"No harm is intended. It is one of the necessary formalities."
"Go ahead, then."
The two students bore Sam about the room, chanting discordantly as they went. At length they set him down again in a chair. Then Brown passed his hand several times over Sam's face, explaining that this was one of the necessary formalities also. Then the bandage was taken off, and a Greek book was handed to Sam.
"We will test your scholarship," said Brown. "Read."