Word: forlying
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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I knew a dun once. He came, I think, from some coal-office in the distant Port. He was the most affable dun that ever made out a bill. He did not seem to care so much for his money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known...
I know fellows who descend to the playing of mean tricks on duns. I was in Smith's room last week, when there came a suspicious knock at the door, - suspicious because it was unaccompanied by that vigorous kick on the lower panel which usually characterizes the summons of Smithie...
Now let me tell you of the low trick played on a dun by my chum last year. My chum had been deluded enough to subscribe to one of those periodical editions of Don Quixote, under the pleasing belief that it would be a fine thing to acquire Cervantes in...
For myself, let me say that, although duns are sometimes a source of amusement, I intend henceforth to know them only in their relations to my friends, and that I shall only sport my oak on the night before my annual examination in Math. X.
Now, let us ask if it is fair to suppose that the undergraduate mind is naturally prone to lying. We see no reason for any such conclusion. Is it not rather absurd to assume that the year before he graduates his tendency is wholly in this direction and the year...