_Mess_.

-- He hath indeed, better bettered expectation, than you must expect me to tell you how.
_Leon_.

-- He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Mr.Landholm came back in excellent spirits from Shagarack.
The boys were well entered, Will Junior and Winthrop Sophomore, and with very good credit to themselves.

This had been their hope and intention, with the view of escaping the cost of one and two years of a college life.

President Tuttle had received them very kindly, and everything was promising; the boys in good heart, and their father a proud man.
"Aint it queer, now," he said that evening of his return, as he sat warming his hands before the blaze, "aint it queer that those two fellows should go in like that -- one Junior and t'other Sophomore, and when they've had no chance at all beforehand, you may say.