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CHAPTER XXV
English 53 had only a dozen men in it; so Henley conducted the course in a very I A informal fashion. 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 re¬ member 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 did n’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 pearis.” The class laughed, but Winsor was not one to Rh