The Mascot (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Mascot Time - Opening of the scholastic year, afternoon. Scene - The study room of De Quincy and Harrison. The room has not yet been put in order. Harrison and De Quincy discovered carrying in the latter's trunk. De Quincy is nearly overcome by his struggle up the stairs. Har. Well, come on, Spider, don't get the idea into your bean that this is a funeral procession. De Q. Well (puff) its no track meet, by cricky, and (puff) its my trunk, and I'm going to take as much time as I want to. (Sits down upon trunk and wipes face.) It's a blooming shame there's no elevator in this place. I'd about as soon crawl up a fire escape as those pesky stairs. If I'd known that I'd have to take a room on the third floor of this blessed beanery I'd have tried to get board out in town again. Har. And if I had known that that freak of a deacon was going to make me room with a cross between a baby hippopotamus and a feather bed, I certainly would have persuaded my grandfather to send me to another school. De Q. I can assure you that you don't regret the exceedingly deplorable fact of our rooming together any more than I do. If there is anything I enjoy on this terrestrial sphere it's peace and quietude, and from what I saw of you last year I don't think I'll have either. Har. (Aside.) I don't think so myself. De Q. If I keep on having this bad luck like I have been having so far this year I shall not last through the term, I declare I shall not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.