THE BATTALION.
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side out. This is the way I have planned it. That cane that
you noticed over in my room yesterday is hollow and almost
as brittle as chalk. I can notch it and make it still more
brittle, if it needs to be. I am going to take it to town with
me Saturday and get it filled up with little thin glass vials of
the meanest smelling stuff in town. I won’t have any trouble
getting the stuff, for a cousin of mine owns a drug store in
town. I am going to split the cane and divide into sections
with a vial in ea°h section. In that way I can grip the cane
half way down, use the lower end on the first crowd that
tackles, and save the rest tor a second crowd. When I get
past the Sophs I’ll pull out another cane from under my coat
and walk on like there wasn’t a Soph in a mile.”
“Do you think you can do it?” asked Bonner doubtfully.
“Sure, I do.”
“How will you keep the chemicals from effecting your
self?”
“Stop my nose up.”
“How are you going to advertise it?” asked Bonner still
doubtfully.
“By posting notices all over the campus. Give me a
sheet of paper and I’ll fix them up now. Here, this will do.
We don’t want to have it too breezy. It will sound a bit
ironica 1 in the simplest way we can put it, on account of our
class’ reputation. Twenty of these will do for tonight. We
can put some more up tomorrow night.”
The next morning in twenty conspicuous places on the