Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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$$$$ +1- Jr'RETTY good sort of a chap this fellow t Freddie, and this year he doubled up with one Nelson by name, with whom, no doubt. you are acquainted. I should not say ndoubled upf for not so for Nelson, as there is but One person in this world for him, a dear girl of tender years. It is hot the young lady over at the restaurant, the one with the No, you are wrong, you will have to guess again. sunburned hair, nor the sweet young lady at the boarding house, but the one who told him he is pretty. Are you on? They always tell us that birds of a feather, etc., but Freddie. is quite different He has those settled ways although he never settles. By the way, speaking of settling, reminds me of the time he came down to the clinic with a very much disfigured face. Of course he advised us that had had a friendly wrestling match with one of his class-mates, and the hoor had come up and met his face half way. How- ever, he looked as though he had been sorting cats, but I rather think he was handed that lovely bunch by the land- lady trying to make him settle. i asked Freddie one day why he shaved off his mustache, and he said the landlady furnished sponges now with bean sotip, and it was not necessary to do any more straining. Freddie often speaks of his room-mate's economy and generosity twhen alone; He tells. me that he sleeps on his trousers so that they might be creased in the morning 0 RH awww$$$$$$$$$$ewwemwmwxwwewwwemg He Can't Help it But He is 0 go memmemewmmeemeemmemmemmemememmmm Q Q tfiftcen cents savedy. I really believe that Nelson is a little close, for a friend of mine told me that he wouldn't even give a healthy sneeze for fear of wearing out his nose, Did you ever hear him? He sneezes just like a stopped-up chip blower. By the way, 1 am told that Nelson is think- ing of studying law, and even at this early date he is holding night sessions of court in the Spencer parloret This fellow Freddie is a great fellow. One night after being out with the boys he came home, and finding his roumrmate asleep, he undressed very quietly and slipped into bed,. After falling asleep he was again wakened by the following remark: t'Wake up, Fred, and open a door or something; i'm stiiiing; we must have some air. Fred got out of bed half asleep, felt around in the dark for awhile and said, KiI canit hnd an openerf' Nelson says, tt1 didnt say ibeerf I said 'airi, Finally Fred did find a doom one leading into a closet instead of outside, which he opened, and then crawled back into bed. Did you open something?H asked his companion. i opened the door, replied Fred. How's the weather outside ?ii 'iBlack as tar, said Fed, hand smells of cheese? You see, Nelson had bought a iimberger cheese sandwich and couldn't eat it: all, so he put it in the closet for fear it would walk off. He can't help it, but he is e V

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Yes, I'm sorry to say. I did; my burr accidently caught in the rubber dam illlCl about jerked her head off, and what do you think she said? She looked up in a quiet way and said most casually, tls this part of the program? I tell you, shes a star, even if she does eat llllli Say, Shorty. what's all the excitement across the street? By jovci the hotelis on hre! VVhatld I say about Christmas trees! Sure enough, smoke was rolling out of the windows of the second and third Hoors, while the ringing of hre-hells was distinctly heard. The two men ran to the door of the club amid the crowd. Already a bright light prevailed and tiamcs were seen in the windows. Suddenly there appeared in the window of the top hoor the figure of a woman about to jump; the crowd saw her and a yell of terror went up. Evidently appalled hy the distance, the iigurc retreated into the burning building, but her escape was cut off from that direction. 7 Standing in the entrance of the club, Shorty turned to speak to Jack, but he was nowhere to be found. For jack, on seeing the woman, darted across the street. and into the building next to the hotel. He ran up the stairs to the roof, which was some twenty feet above the roof of the doomed hotel. Without hesitation, he dropped. He burst in a sky- light and fell to the floor. The room was filled with smoke, but with indomitable courage, he gropetl his way to the door, His head reeled and his eyes burned! but he stumbled on into the hall, calling meanwhile for the woman. The elevator shaft was a veritable furnace, and he could see flames on the stairst while the roar of the fire was deafe ening. He felt his way down the hall in search of the hape less woman, but she did not answer his call. The heat was intense, but desperately he went on. Suddenly he fell over something, and on rising, disccwered it to he the figure of the girl. Seiziug her in his arms, he retreated hastily in the HA direction from which he had come, and by sheer good luck, found his way into the room into which he had entered. Placing a table under the broken skylight and a chair on the table, he mounted this improvised ladder with the uncon- scious girl; pushing her onto the roof, he scrambled up, falling in a faint beside her. He was, however, quickly revived by the cold air. and on glancing fearfully at her, lest he had come too late, he recognized the familiar features of Mabel Taiiguayl Firemen had ladders to the roof by the time jack came to and the girl and her rescuer were carried down and hurried to the hospital, Jack again falling into unconsciousness. a::h$:k4a:i:$$$$$:k$$:k Three years later Shorty, now a practicing dentist, drop- ped into the post-ofhce of his town and asked for his mail. He was handed, among other things, a small eiivelope, and mi tearing it open, read the contents, as follows: CINCINNATI, December :31, 1011. nMy dear Shorty? uDotti: you want to come down and spend the holidays with L13. You know it's the babyis hrs: Christmas, and we are going to have a tree for him, and Mabel and 1' would so like to have you come and see it decorated. Hels the cutest babe you ever saw, and he notices every- thing we do for him; he always seems to like his papa's old friends, so do come, for he will be so very glad to see you. 'tLet me know when you will arrive, and 1,11 meet you at the depot, Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you we have a new grocer, the old ones milk wasn't good for the baby, and this new grocer has the best limberger cheese you ever ate, T just eat it all the time, and even the baby likes it, so you surely must come. Your Old chum. HACK. Shorty put the letter in his pocket with a chuckle, and on the twenty-third he mysteriously left for the city. a Wright, Jr.

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