Word: vagabonde
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...like summer thunder beneath distant horizons, shook the clapboards. Sacro-illiac was a part of anatomy. From that opening salvo it was as impossible to turn the conversation into familiar channels as to stem the full tide. Those boys so normal in college days, who had hung on the Vagabond's every word with awe and rapture, now forgot him. Their talk was medical talk. Their tragedies were medical tragedies. Their jokes were medical jokes. My and what poor jokes medical pleasantries are. If a quip is to have any point at all someone...
...came over the Vagabond a few short days ago that a college year was dying. What was it old Omar said, "The Bird of term has but a little way to flutter?" And there came with his regret at seeing the old order changing, the wanderlust. He crammed his briar, swung his great grey Burberry around his shoulders, and was off. The old fellow strode along the banks of father Charles off which the evening mists were rising, and on which the evening mists were rising, and on which the evening dews were falling. How long he walked...
...Vagabond did notice one thing that rose distinctly out of all the chaos. Vanderbilt Hall was the house plan. All were interested in the same thing, all talked with each other. The scapel had severed the bonds of society, of money, of nationality. Every valley was exalted; every hill made low. The hills and the jokes had much in common...
After the repast the little gathering went upstairs. They must show the Vagabond a dormitory room. On the way one of the number knocked at a door. "Get the hell out, I'm studying," was the shocking answer. A think grimace was pasted on the lips of the knocker. They would have revenge. Two Victrolas were commandeered and set to playing on the door stoop--"Something To Remember Me By." Then a few fire crackers were shot off to give the thing a tinge of reality. The scoundrels slunk off to their rooms to study...
...Vagabond need not explain how he knows of all the worthwhile things that go on. He is omniscient some have even attributed to him omnipresence. Moreover, from his place in Memorial Hall he surveys all. He feels that he can be justly enraged. The greatest fault of the false accusation is its inaccuracy. The Vagabond has no price of twenty-five dollars, in fact he never has stooped to so low a bribe...