Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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REMINUISANCES OF A RELICT YOU want me to tell you of the airlv davs — of the times, as they ust to be? Well, I don ' t say it to brag, but my mind is still as clear as a bell and if I do sav it who shouldn ' t; I can rikollect as plain as though it wuz yesterday, the first class that went out to the new College. I mind, too, the night the old College burned. There wuz a terrible storm, early in the evenin ' . Thunder an ' light- nin ' an ' rain an ' roar! I reckon it got struck — anyhow, in the middle of the night, the tire bell rang and everbuddy got out of bed and splashed down and stood around and watched the pride of the town burn to the ground. That wuz an awful night. When they built the new College in Dunn ' s woods, they wuz people said it wuz a mistake — that nobuddy would go that fur to skewl and a Brown county farmer went out to look at the buildings — there wuz only two — and asked when they wuz goin ' to clear the timber ofTen the lot? We had good old-fashioned ways then. Spanker ' s Branch run across the street and we went oyer it on stepping stones. Stepping stones for studjents, we called them. They finally built the new street oyer it and coyered the branch clean up, and they tell me that they call it the Jurdan Riyer now. Mebbe so, but we called it Spanker ' s Branch. We went into the campus, oyer a stile, and the walks wuz bored but the walkers wuzn ' t. I aint no hand at describing scenery and there ' s no need of teching up the campus like poets do — I can jest shet my eyes and see it as it wuz then. Wild flowers and Johnnie-jump-ups and spring beauties under our feet and May apples in the hollers, and grass as fine and soft as a poller sofy. Fall of the year, the purtiest red and yellow leayes you eyer saw and then the beech nuts — we ust to gether them and take them into class and crack and eat them, in the perfessors ear. They didn ' t like that yery well, but I ' ye seen eyen the perfessors eatin ' them. And snow in winter! And mud — makin ' that new street — laws! l$t5 [27]