‘CHAPTER XXII.
THE DASHING YOUNG FRESHMAN.

Ir was pleasant for both Howard and Tom
that they were to go on their journey by the
railroad together. They met with many ad-
ventures more interesting to themselves than
to others, and arrived safely in Philadelphia.

The day but one after their departure,
George Cramer left home for college. Great
preparations had been made for this event.
The gay and dashing style of dress in which
Mr. and Mrs. Cramer indulged George, would
be sure to make him conspicuous among the
young freshmen. |

He had been examined at commencement,
and passed a tolerable, and only a tolerable,
examination. He just made out to slide into
college edge-wise, and now he had come to