The Free lance. (State College, Pa.) 1887-1904, March 01, 1900, Image 22

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    a funny scraping noise outside. Grady got up and looked
out the window. A rope was hanging down from the floor
above and to the end of it dangled a "Freshie" trying to get
into Lecrone's room."
"We had been papering the walls that afternoon and had
half a bucket of flour paste left. Grady emptied half a pit
cher of water and a bottle of ink into it, while I grabbed a
bottle of ammonia from the closet, and we poured the con
tents of both out the window. We could not lean out far,
for fear of getting something down from above on our own
heads. Just at the moment we emptied the bucket and bot
tle, Dr. Andrews stepped out of his office. The part of the
mixture that missed the Freshman, and that was the great
er part, struck the Doctor fairly on top of the head. lie had
not yet put on his hat, and his head, which was never too
thickly settled by hairs, looked like a loaf of bread just ready
to go into the oven. The ink seemed to have all collected on
his shirt, while the ammonia distributed itself evenly over
his face and clothes."
"The next day he called Grady, Lecrone, and myself
into his office. We explained matters as best we could and
escaped with two weeks' Campus."'
"What do you mean by two weeks' 'Campus'?" I asked,
"Means that you are not allowed to leave the campus
for two weeks, except on Saturday afternoon," he answered.
"Now, please pass that cake and those bon-bons over here."
The Free Lance.