A Romance of the Fashionable World

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...you to the President; And whether you 're student now, or resident Graduate, nothing, I fear, from your fate can excuse you, And naught can redeem from the hate that pursues you. Nor was the proctor aware in the mood Potential he would himself be pursued. The Saurian rose with an angry hiss. 0, woe betide that proctor then! He ne'er before met foe like this, And ne'er shall meel such foe again. The serpent has got him fast by the leg; Mercy! list to his fearful screams! It's vain for mercy from him to beg. Some students, nodding over their themes, Start, yawn, and stretch, and relapse into dreams. The snake, however, turned to flee, --Leaving the proctor, as he thought, dead, --And then climbed up in Liberty Tree, And a tract Oh Ichthyology read. VI. The students, next morning, going to prayerSj Found the snake coiled up on the chapel stairs; And not far off from Gore Hall, 't is; said, The proctor lay quite bloody and dead, As they thought; but, when they called a doctor, They found life lingered within the proctor. To be sure, his leg was nearly bitten Off, and the hand that holds the pen Would ne'er look well save a glove or mitten Were wrapped around it; still, what then Cotdd be done was done. Ware and Morton Came from Boston the leg to shorten; Morton gave first a dose of ether, And he's the first who ever gave it; Nor sinful man, nor woman either, Had had it as they freely have it Now, had not our gallant Morton, 'Mid jeers and sneers, in silence wrought on, Until he fairly taught the nation There's pleasure in an amputation. Besides, in Washington they say, Morton has fairly won the day; In spite of this, there is a faction Who blindly worship Dr. Jackson. Well, all the professors, students, and men In Cambridge, fought with the serp...