Author: Wake Forest CollegePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333207069
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Excerpt from The Howler, 1903, Vol. 1 Doubtless, many more would have died of overwork and fatigue had it not been for the little ponies which accompanied us on our journey and on which a few members of our class rode over the roughest and steepest part of the road. We are sorry to say, too, that some of our most stalwart men at one time, think ing that a pony was a luxury which every one who was able should enjoy, instead of an animal for emergencies only, rode so continuously on their patient little beasts that they came near wearing them all to a worthless, unintelligible frazzle. It took many months of painstaking attention to restore our herd to its pristine vigor and beauty. As a historian, therefore, and a philosopher, we would like to leave this bit of advice with the coming classes: Do not in any case allow too much riding by any one. Use your animals for emergencies only, and never suffer them to be overburdened by heavy weights. A man who always rides forgets how to walk when compelled to dismount and enter a country where his beast is under the ban. There is no one word that may be used to characterize our class as a whole. We have to a large extent been run through the same mould, and yet are very different in features and caliber still, and I doubt if the word lordly, which all of us now bear, will accompany us through the rest of our lives. The shock of difference will gradually become so painful in going from one member of the class to another that we may expect our titles to change; and a different environ ment will probably also change our occupations more and more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.