"Names? What of it? When a boy calls you names walk along about your business. Take off that coat!"
"But he didn't call me names!"
"Oh, he didn't? Take off that vest!"
"When he called me names I never looked at him, but when he pitched into you, I—I had to fight!"
"What! Did he call me names?"
"Lots of 'em, father! He said you lied to your constituents, and went back on the caucus and had!"—
"William, put on your coat and vest, and here's a nickel to buy peanuts! I don't want you to come up a slugger, and I wish you to stand well with your teacher, but if you can lick the boy who says I ever bolted a regular nomination or went back on my end of the ward, don't be afraid to sail in!"—Free Press.
One of the Harvard students has fitted up his room at a cost of $4,000. We suspect that the young man's room is better than his company.