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could talk .himself In and out of itoore trouble in ten minutes
than most people cam in a life time. The reason I know this
boy so well is because I roomed with him for a whole yhatt. 1
Joe—that isn’t his name, but-mrl story purposes we'll
call him that-*-was a slick sorts fellow, smart apd all, and
sometimes a little too smart for* hi* own food. It was one
of those times that this story has to deal with.
A couple of months before Itke organisation ball, Joe
began to Send out those feeler letters, he wasn't quite sure
which one of his many girls he wanted to have down. You
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know one of those guys who
therf’s safety in numbers
letters, each one boldly
be his date to the dance. I
it, tat he wouldn’t listen.
that ancient adage,
he sent out about six
that the fair young lady
told him ke was nuts for doing
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enough a week before the
as telling him that the fair
Time moved on, and sure
dance Joe began to receive left
young thing would be only too glgd! to come to thf dance and
thanked him very much for iavitiag her. There were three
of them that could come to the dancer Now, in my opinion,
the smart thing for him to do would have been to get sick
and not even go to the danoe, but ao, not Joe, he was going,
three girls or no three girls. H seems that he was striaging
, all three of them something awfg|i and none of them would
let him back down on the invitatipn without a very good ex
cuse.
The day of the big affair rolled around amd by that
time Joe had figured it all out. The one with the ^hr he
would put in town, the other two would go in the dormitory.
As I was kinda interested in just how he was going to manage
the thing 1 went along as s spectator. This is what happened
) We met the first one at the bus in front of the Aggie
land. She jw^a kiryia cute, but hit always did have
taste. Anywgh, we met her and proceeded to have a big
session. She was so thrilled and til, and she just had to ate
the campus. Now that was somMhing Joe hadn’t figured
on, because the train was due ia gbout twenty minutes and
he had to meet it to get the other
girl Just so we won’t get
about five-thirty to get there.
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Well, Jane wanted to see the campus and that was all
there was to it Joe began to tall about how tired she must
be after such a long ride on the bus and he thought it would
be a good idea for her to lie down «r*i rest for a while, then
he would be back to fhow her the campus. Jane considered
the plan, and while she was debuting, 1 saw Joe cross his
fingers. |W1. no, I didn't cross mine; I wanted to see him
die on the block. She finally agewed to the suggestion and
off to the room we went. | I
Just as we left the dormitory' wher.* Jane was staying
we heard the train whistle. After running all the way down
there, we made it just in time to see her get eff. She war*
better looking than Jane and loosed a little smarter. I was
hoping she was smart-enough to catch him. Her name was
“linger," and I mearr'uhe was full ef it. I never heard a
gig! plan so much to do in one weekend in all my life. It
tickled me because I knew if Joe had to spend too much time
with one of them he would get crossed up and I mean crossed
up. Well, we only had an hour to g^l rtd of fGinger' v be
cause Joe had promised Jane he would be'back for her then.
It was a good thing for him that he told the third one that
he had classes all afternoon and that she would wait until
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We took “Ginger’* to the dormitory and waited until she
left her bags. Then we went up to the drugstore anil drank
a coke. All the time she was talking I could see Joe wincing.
Honest, she didn’t know a thing about the school and she
was going to find out all about it in a weekend.
At Joe’s suggestion “Ginger*’ decided to rest a while
and fix her hair. We left “Ginger” and went to the ^|t
ramp to get Jane. It was a good thing he was able to^^t
rooms a ramp apart, just so they wouldn't be rooming to
gether. That would have made the situation a bit difficult
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Jane had seen us bring “Ginger” Into the dormitory and
wanted to know was she my date. Before I could say a word
Joe said she was and that she was kinda tired and wanted
to rest a while. I thought there for a minute she was going
to ask him why he wm{ tarrying her suitcase, but she
didn’t. The whole damn thing was so fantastic that no one
would even dream of a mix up like the one Joe was In. .
We walked Jane around the campus for about an hour
and all the time Joe was in the beet of spirita, not one
thought did he give to his date with “Ginger”; at least^A-
didn’t seem to think about it. ,
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All the time we were walking I was thinking of J»at how
he was going to get them all in the mess hall at thd same
time for supper. It was something to worry about, but Joe
THE BATTALION