PERADVENTURE, A LANCELET.
"With a click-ity-click and a snip,
The college exchanges I rip
As their treasures of verse I clip
And their measures of —."
"0 rot! Shut up such nonsense!" exclaimed Pen as
Shears began to sing an impromptu song. "Don't you have
any fellow-feeling for the rest of us?"
"0, I don't know!" replied Shears. "But I saw a fellow
feeling for you in the dark last night. And he said some
bad words, too, when he could'nt find you. I guess it was
the Critic. "
At this they all laughed, for having always lived with
college exchanges, they had become used to laughing at
stale jokes. But Pastepot was so dry that the laugh nearly
cracked his throat, and the way he made wry faces and roll
ed around in agony 'set the rest of them nearly wild with
merriment. Pen poked Inkbottle in the neck, and Inkbottle
in return ducked Pen in the ink. Paperweight in trying to
make Shears shut up,. took him down and sat on him.
While Paperlance and Waterbottle went to the aid of Paste
pot and soon relieved him of his distress.
"Ah, ha! my merry fellows, here we are again." It was
the voice of the Critic who had entered, 'unobserved. "Yes
it is time to get out another issue. So brace up now and get
to work."
"Caesar! but you are a sorry looking crowd. Poor fel
lows, you certainly do have a hard.life. But remember that
this is the last time I will ever bother you. So come to at
tention now and present arms while I march the exchanges
by in review on their way to the general library."