Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other afternoon I was going through the Yard, when I saw something that looked like a Summons lying on the ground. I had not had any Summonses yet to tack up on my door, and I thought that I could easily change the name, and then it would look just as well as if I had received it from head-quarters. So I picked it up. The document read as follows...
...retire, humming softly to himself as he forms plans for the morrow. Ah, better for him had that morrow never dawned! After wrapping up his soiled linen in a neat bundle for the janitor, he was about to get into bed when he stepped quite unexpectedly on a tack. Was it an omen of the ills to follow? Who can tell? "Gosh ding it!" exclaimed Guy. (This is an Oberlin oath sanctioned by Mrs. Hayes...