Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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gave me a guide-book, and then I found that the way was long and hard, and that I must go through the gateway called Goodrich Vault, which was horribly dark and cold. That place made me feel sick, but I got through, after all, and got the panacea. I believe I have the formula for it here. And she opened her shopping-bag. Yes, here it is. And she handed me a piece of paper on which was written, Fr E, + Tr A, Des. I saw horrible things there, she continued. And oh, how it smelt! You would be surprised if I told you the names of all I saw down there,- lots of my acquaintances, Eighty-five's fellows, at least. Well, by carefully following the directions of the guide-book, and using some old keys I had, I managed to get out of Hades with the panacea 3 but, on my way up, I thought that this wouldn't be fair to home industries, and perhaps it would be best to throw it away: but, when I opened the bag, it all flew out. I was wild then. However, Mr. Diploma happened to come along just then, and he gathered it all together for me, and put it up into a safe package thatI couldn't loseg and he promised to marry me next year, and to make me immortal, even if his mother didn't. And now I'm 'most through my work, thank heaven ! Well, I must go, or I'll not get back before morning. I'm ever so much obliged to you for letting me rest here. Good-night. ' She rose quickly, turned, and went out, and I was alone again. But I had caught a 'glimpse of a monogram on her shopping-bag, and this monogram was that of our already immortal 1 A 86.

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find the derivation of every word, and be prepared to answer any questions she might ask me on any part of the books. She gave me a big dictionary and some grammars, and then left me to do it. I sat down, and tried to translate the stuff. Itell you it was a grind. I fell asleep over it, and slept till almost five 3 and I was scared when I found how late it was. While I sat there in despair, I saw, in the book-case before me, a book with the same name that one of mine had, and, when I took it down, I found that it was in English, and had lots of notes in it. It had been written by a lot of little digs, and was published by a man named Harper 5 and there was one book for each of those Alma Mater had given me. So I learned it all 5 and, when she came in after tea to see what I had done, I was all ready, and got through with flying colors. Well, I hugged myself 3 but next morning she said at breakfast that she would see me later in the library, and I knew she had something else for me to do 3 and, sure enough, she had. She said she would give me an easy thing to do this time,- just to gather the wool from her sheep. I never thought wool-gathering was hard, so I made up my mind to get through early. On my way to the meadow,I met my old friend, Eighty-four, and I asked her to tell me something about these sheep, and where I could find them. She told me the sheep were not so quiet as they looked. There was one old one, with awfully crooked horns, named Mathematics 3 and one with terribly tangled fleece was called Chemistry 3 and there was Biology and Constitution and Logic in the distance. One nice-looking little lamb, Rhetoric, which I thought it would be easy to handle, she said had been known to chew fellows all up. Another, with very long fleece, that I asked about, she said I could manage if I did not mind its being German. 'Thanks,' I said, ' In the words of the poet, the Yankee Doodle do. ' History, she said, was reported quite gentle by local tradition, but those who tried to skin him sometimes slipped up. 'f She discouraged me so, that I went back, and played tennis all day. When evening came, I began to feel scared again, and I started back to try to get some wool at any rateg and, as I hurried along, I stumbled over a big bag lying in the path, and, when I opened it, I found it full of all the different kinds of wool, -some from every sheep. I couldn't imagine where it had come from, at first 3 but I happened to think that perhaps Eighty-four had left it there for me : and, when I looked, sure enough, I found her name on the outside of the bag. So I came out all right that night too. I thought, then, that I was through 5 but no. This morning she gave rne another task, the worst yet 5 but she said, that, if I accomplished this, I would become immortal: so I determined to do it if I could. I must go down to Hades for a wonderful panacea - Where? I exclaimed, starting from my chair. To Hades, I said, she went on very unconcernedly. But I was to be immortal if I returned. I didn't know at first how to go to work, but a peri 20

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