Sallee in that sweet, deep love."

He was interested in whether McGovern of Minnesota would make the first
or second All-American, how to do the card-pass, how to do the coin-pass,
chameleon ties, how babies were born, and whether Three-fingered Brown
was really a better pitcher than Christie Mathewson.

Among other things he read: "For the Honor of the School," "Little Women"
(twice), "The Common Law," "Sapho," "Dangerous Dan McGrew," "The Broad
Highway" (three times), "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Three Weeks,"
"Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's Chum," "Gunga Din," The Police Gazette,
and Jim-Jam Jems.

He had all the Henty biasses in history, and was particularly fond of the
cheerful murder stories of Mary Roberts Rinehart.

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School ruined his French and gave him a distaste for standard authors.
His masters considered him idle, unreliable and superficially clever.

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He collected locks of hair from many girls. He wore the rings of
several. Finally he could borrow no more rings, owing to his nervous
habit of chewing them out of shape. This, it seemed, usually aroused
the jealous suspicions of the next borrower.

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