Of all the avocations of youth, I conceive the pursuit of the sombre goddess of learning to be the most profitable--entirely the most profitable.

I myself, though a young man,--being still on the right side of forty,--have reaped the richest harvest from my labours in the classic shades.

Twenty years ago, young gentlemen, I, like you, left my ancestral estates to sip at the Pierian spring.

In point of fact, I attended the institution founded by Thomas Jefferson, the father of the American democracy--yes, sir." He put his cigar back in his mouth and added, "Yes, sir, you are certainly taking a wise and, I may say, highly necessary step--" Mrs.Culpepper, small, sprightly, blue-eyed, and calm, entered the veranda, and cut the colonel off with: "Good evening, boys.

So you are going away.