The men felt free to bring up for discussion
any topic that interested them.
Nobody was surprised, therefore, when George Winsor asked Henley to
express his opinion of the value of a college education. He reminded
Henley of what he had said two years before, and rapidly gave a resume
of the discussion that resulted in the question he was asking. "We'd
like to know, too," he concluded, grinning wickedly, "just whom you
consider the cream of the earth. You remember you said that if we were
you felt sorry for the skimmed milk."
Henley leaned back in his chair and laughed. "Yes," he said, "I remember
saying that. I didn't think, though, that you would remember it for two
years. You seem to remember most of what I said. I am truly astonished."
He grinned back at Winsor. "The swine seem to have eaten the pearls."
The class laughed, but Winsor was not one to refuse the gambit. "They
were very indigestible," he said quickly.
"Good!" Henley exclaimed. "I wanted them to give you a belly-ache, and I
am delighted that you still suffer."
"We do," Pudge Jamieson admitted, "but we'd like to have a little mercy
shown to us now.
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