Word: vagabonde
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...Divisionals to remember, but surely that is a dull thought. If four years will not prepare you adequately, what will one week avail? And anyway, there are the long afternoons and the longer evenings in which to bind together the slender sheaves of thought and memory. The Vagabond has devised another way to pass the mornings for his seniors. In his good years here he has formed many friendships with the Professors. They have not known him, nor have they seen him, for therein lies his excellent wisdom. But he has heard them. Certainly the seniors have done likewise...
...long ago the Vagabond bought a new pipe. Nothing unusual about the incident, nothing unusual about the purchase, nothing unusual at all. Merely a brown, prosaic, upcountry corn cob that farmers smoke in the spring plowing. But it brought back to mind a far off day when the Vagabond had acquired quite another pipe, under quite another circumstance...
...this old world murk the Vagabond stepped into the warm and well lit splendor of a shop. He was in Dunhill's and he was to buy a pipe--a straight grained pipe for all the world to see. He looked about him. In a far corner was an English gentleman in a Burberry, whose reverent hands stroked a pipe bowl that shone like well dressed leather. Here were three others helping a fourth decide between a crook necked and a straight stemmed. And there alone was one in a suit of tweed who gazed in silence at a loaded...
...Dunhill's must have heard of a wood with a straight grain. They had. Worse they had a waiting list for those who wanted them. Would be have his name entered? The Duke of Peterborough, Lord Lounsbury, Earl of Ludgate, Lord Gray of Shasta and Mount Hellicon, The Vagabond. No he thought not. He was rather sure not. No, he really didn't need or require a straight grained pipe. It was all a joke, a hideous, ill-timed joke. Show him anything, give him anything. Half England was staring at him and he wanted to be alone...
...have noticed with some displeasure the undue emphasis your paper has lately placed on Spring. Your esteemed correspondent, the Vagabond, seems to have been unable to hurdle the difficult barriers placed in his way by that estimable phenomenon and even your editorials have taken undue cognizance of what has long been taken for granted...