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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A COLLEGE COURTSHIP CHAPTER I IT'S Sunday afternoon. I was going to take a nap, but William's room is right over mine, and there are as many as six of his football friends knocking around up there. I should judge from the sound it was secret practice they were having, but, of course, seeing it's Sunday, it could n't be. William's bodily size has been a stumbling- block to him right straight along. He's six feet two inches and seven eighths now, in his winter stockings, and broad accordingly. The trouble commenced with a wrestling match, wherein he overpowered a sophomore, in his freshman year, and things have been going on from bad to worse ever since, till now, from what I hear, I should judge he was conspicuous on the team. It does n't seem any way possible that it's two years and over since William came tocollege, and his mother and his grandfather and I came along with him. It was to protect him from the evil that's in the world that we came along. I should n't ever forget the night he came home and told us at the dinner- table that he 'd been taken on to the freshman team, and that everybody said he was dead certain of the 'Varsity. He was perfectly wild over it - quite a little wilder than he was that time they took him into a sophomore society, though he was considerably worked up over that, too. I did feel simply terribly about the football business. I knew it was going to take the whole of his time that, if he was going to be a minister, he needed every bit of, for the dead languages. If there 's one thing, according to my mind, that's perfectly indispensable to a minister, next to his being properly pious, it's impunity in the dead languages, and how William was going to get it and play football into the bargain was more than I could see. I took him apa
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