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lumps of forebodings in our throats, that were not decreased by Mary’s graceful reply.
} The enthusiasm did not diminish with the toast to 1906 given next. We were never an
iW? unappreciative class as to the nice things of life. Do I not recall some such phrase as
ae “gaze in silent wonder’? The Class Song went off very well, but the pitch of excitement
was too great. Some one proposed a toast to those who were not to return and the tears
which had been ready to fall at a word’s warning poured forth in copious flood. I trust
those of us who were to leave shed the most, though a number of those who were to remain
were not left behind—for example, the girl who left a moist spot on my shoulder. For-
tunately, some one stopped the water supply quite suddenly with the discreet remark,
“Ves, our dear departed,”’ which, while it made some of us feel like drowning her in lemon-
ade, was yet good for us, since it enabled us to collect our battered emotions enough to "
give one last hearty cheer for “Mary,” and then with glasses raised and one foot on the hy 4

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