THE FREE LANCE. Published Monthly during the College Year by the Students of The Pennsylvania State College. Vol. IX Know I her for a fairy ? Ah! indeed I know it well! For she charmed me with her airy Laughter, and from her eyes there fell A beam of light so tender That she wrapped me in her spell. Could she do this, being mortal? Ahl my friend you will agree, That any who have crossed the portal Twixt her world and this we see, Must have walked in nature's footsteps Follows as necessity. Therefore more than mortal's glances Was it pierced me with that beam; Stifling all my idle fancies, Roused from slumber by this flame, As a sunbeam tipped with morning Tingles yet with Aurora's gleam. . What a goddess of beauty! the luckiest man in creation. It was Commencement week and Jack Crawford's chum, Victor l i ee, stood in the wide, low window of his room and watched his chum do the honors of his Alma Mater, accompanied by the prettiest girl he had ever seen. " H'm," he said to himself, "Jack's going to stop here in front of this window to show her off." I don't wonder, all the fellows c have raved over that girl. She doesn't look silly. like ; inost of 'em. I'm glad I've taken three dances, I'll be ; on time, at the ' tea ' to make her acquaintance before the other fellows get there." FEBRUARY, 1896, A FANCY A TRIP TO EUROPE. Gad! that's Jack Crawford. He's No. 8
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