This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK II THE SWELLS" "Thou hypocrite, first cut out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote of thy brother1 eye.' except when Pat Conway was telling one. His stories were classified as "exclusive" and "coeducational." The former were such as might not be repeated to one's own sister, or to any one else's sister, while the latter might. He invariably labelled them with due precaution. "Boys, here is a coed," he would begin. Without this preamble it meant the other kind. There were present only Dan Hausemann, Schnitzel's room-mate, and Sleepy Joe, as a classmate from St. Louis was known at College House, to enjoy the humor of the last yarn, but as a rule Freddie had large, appreciative audiences, for No. oCollege House was especially favored by the boys, besides the attraction of SchnltzeTs stories It had the atmosphere of good fellowship. Hausemann's hearty laugh had scarcely died away, and Sleepy Joe, stretched at full length on Freddie's bed, his face covered with his cap, was still beating his dangling feet against the bedside as a sort of applause, when a rap was heard on the door. "Stay out " all three shouted simultaneously. But the door opened, admitting a tall, grayhoundlike fellow, narrow chested, with eyes more white than iris and a nose that scarcely had any nostril. He was smartly dressed, with a white silk handkerchief overlapplnfTns upper coat-pocket in the shape of a pig's ear, and a pipe with a bent stem hung down his long, narrow chin. "I thought it was Pat," said Freddie half apologetically, and Dan seconded his room-mate in his usual semi-bashful manner. "Tumble into that bed, Dunkelheimer," he added, "if you would like to have a comfortable seat." Sleepy Joe gave a loud snort...