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it, who** purehaar had at «>ru-
* a bon* at <^>nt«*ntion in th<-
the taM^y tk
After a while Jo* ehterped from the
bedroom, clean, and dre—ed ■
whit*
tin
Green bar household, 'll had c^it
5 i scab I* chunk oat of a Month’s hak-
cbsek. But Jo* mast lisa up to the
SCry
His mother was Standi** by th*
table with her * lasses pused up bu I
hat forehead. She gianoeri U p from
the table, which she was Hearing
’‘Well, well, you dif look niea, aon.”
“It’s a face that only ■ a mother
could love," Joe recited. But he didn't
haheee j
“Nancy aeema to Bke it"
‘‘Well, good night. Mom. I'm going.'*
Joe kissed his amllmr sad left the
house. As he drove into s filling stg*
tion he noted that the ear next to
his had a Texas Aggie sticker on the
bark. He got out of the car to get a
drink of water*
A boy jumped out of the other car
and came running over to Joe.
“Well if it isn’t old Preacher Green
As their car dreve
at his watch and whistled. He jumped
Mb'car and in
If!
iff, Joe looked
a few moments
Ma
Nancy?" Joe
at aft."
you mad?"
traffic light
into
he wan in 'front of ths .Critt
1 and tMUraaked in breathlessly
"What’s the matter,
asked, as' he started
"Oh, nothing,
“WeH, then, why
Joe glanced up at
and looked back at N
"I don’t see — "
1 Crash ! ! ! 1
VKihmrr wax a
r^staei, tinkling glass,
Joe’s mind became
Automatically he
ca»*, Bent fenders
whisM.
pa.vcheck! A
Dad " bat woe
Joe tur^md back to
thought. , somewhat
cenfessed of Nancy.
On September
room nriorodply,
the noises of'old fi
“Chester Endyke. you son of a gun!
What are you lading’ around here?"
^Wh-anfre on our way to Jeffen-
sotrrflla." J ; il ♦ h J.
Another boy came out of the car
and slapped Joe on the back.
’’Hello, Jack! .1 haren ’t seen you
since Final Review!"
“How you doing. Joe?”
For a few minutes there was a
mixture of talking and laughing until
' MlMr ? QmAJf settled down to talking
{one at a time.
“Say, boys." said Jack, “let’s get
a bottle of beer.”
’’Now, Jack," said Cheater, “yog
know Joe here ha*n>l indulged sine*
he met his Nancy. She’s flat got him
line. Why that’s where he got
i me ’Preabher’.*’
44 Ia'that right, Joe?" said Jack.
•’We^ITTyoe replied. “Aw, hell,
let’s go get jiha out* bottle anyway,
I'm sere that won’t hurt iglgthtag-'*
“Now, you’re talking, Joe.”
They walked across the. street *o
a small, shoddy place advertising
"Beer on Tap." A nickelodeon blared
faith with Basin Street Blues.
Just aa Joe was entering the beer
joint. Sally Holt rode by.
"Why that’s Jo* Green bar!" Sally
rapturously exclaimed. “Going into
that awful pined too! Ill bet Nancy!
would shin him alive! Let’s go home,
See. right now.”
Joe, urrworned because unknowing,
was telling his friends good by.
i: EC EMBER u, 1938
MK Bp
Twisted
month's
another. A wither
“Phooey," said dov.
window on the cumf
feriot campus, thought
wouldn't see him V>r
Well. h<h had showh
of cmnchmg
silence
maelstrom,
out of the
radiator
went another
what would
Nancy , say ?
car as he
ly It must
was gone,
sat in his
itljr he beard
fcraspuig ape
tration day.
gased out the
A’ Very in-
So Nancy
to him.
thing or
had dates
the whole
—
'
activity. : That Was all vhyy Weil un
til he had left fuKacHapl.Vow he wai
thinking of those datgs he Wouldn’t
get for the Corps Trg». the. Thanks
giving game and abefe all the Jun
ior Prom, “Well," he £theugh,Vw’hat
the hell! What the
Joe was standing in
later waiting for his
•nation to take ad
science. His momma
take his place in line,
I • “Bay. Joe,” he
just'brought a
marked Middleburg.
blue envelopes!"
“You don’t say! Bay. oh boy, just
wait till I get thn>< gh here!”
ne a few days
ysieal exam-
military
walked up to'
“A freshman
for you. post-
one ef those
An hour later Joe fragged hie way
i iu
across the campus. What it jlife—
Color blind! Joe fell like seme sort
of a cripple. No more drilling,
though, anyway. He walked into his
room and picked up he letter. “Dear
Jo*:" His temp*rat ire dropped a$
one*
“If you will just
and’ tell me truly I
drunk that night,
letting bygone* be
just hadn't hit that
sider your story
ipotogin- again
at you weren’t
might consider
If you
I might con*
about merely
. *J
4i
of beer. You know
right through a rad
Ho rever I’ll atiB over-
vipr that night”
Nancy.
litter over again. He
five times and this
literary labors and ar-
Well, he knew bow
that red light,
could be Squared
even with Nancy
once again be
on Nanry’s list. The
prominent ami
n town would once
final ly Joe's girl,
rlhne I. A funny look stole
tort of light in fact,
pen and began to
\ f
are light. I don't deserve
drus k that night. Filthy
real y drunk most of |he
love it! Yesterday, I
knd so that’s the
mili ary. career! In fact
tomorrow. I
)roc r seif-sacrifice. You
are too gbod for me and Mr. Critt is
too. left!’* ad for the and may you both
He red’
better boy friend!
U. MT i i
thought of Mrs. Critt.
she had given him
those dfcfunfuj plying looks. He pick
ed up hi > pun; aid wrote. “P. 8. Give
H to your Moth-
will understand." t
etter to a freshman
o4t luxuriously on his
his feet oh his
fWWhr.J >1 /
said Joe to no on**'
• I
my love
er; I beAfv*
room mar <’*[
roommaie’s Heap
k
¥1
iw w
coffee.?
turned up with this
| bb the Other morning,
the freshman class
alter schools, there
American boys and one
y wlio ate atj the same
[it|ni<man. being out-num-
haxei quite a bit by the
Ho* ever, he never com-
th< * AjMerteahs, feeling
the if pranks, approached
day. “Wong," ithey
decided t* quit put-
i yiour tea and pepper on
IfiWkMg replied, “Very
quit spitt ng in your
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