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He studied it attentively for a while; then he sent a telegram: MACBRIDE & COMPANY, Minneapolis: G.&M. R.R. wants to tie us up. Will not furnish cars to carry our cribbing. Can't get it elsewhere inside of three weeks. If so, can they have one or more steam barges at Manistogee within forty-eight hours? Wire Ledyard Hotel. It was an hour's ride back to Ledyard.
A local poet described it in the "live" paper of the town, cribbing from an old Eastern magazine and passing off as original the lines "Again we stepped into the street, A train came thundering by, Drawn by the snorting iron steed Swifter than eagles fly. Rumbled the wheels, the whistle shrieked, Far rolled the smoky cloud, Echoed the hills, the valleys shook, The flying forests bowed."
"Never again will I forget that a master is not a man. Mark my words," said the Reverend John. "There will be trouble." But by the yellow Tiber Was tumult and affright. Prout had dropped into Number Five, read them a lecture on the enormity of cribbing, and bidden them return to the form-rooms on Monday.
Next morning at eight o'clock Charlie Bannon walked into the office of C. H. Dennis, the manager of the Ledyard Salt and Lumber Company. "I'm Bannon," he said, "of MacBride & Company. Come up to see why you don't get out our bill of cribbing." "Told you by letter," retorted Dennis. "We can't get the cars." "I know you did. That's a good thing to say in a letter.
Three days after his departure the superintendent of the United States Military Academy received a letter that caused him much astonishment. In this letter Dodge briefly confessed that he, and he alone, was the guilty party in that cribbing affair, and Dick Prescott had had no guilty share or knowledge in the incident. "Hm!" mused the superintendent, a grim smile passing over his face.
I have read them, and am writing this from my sick-bed. The doctor tells me I may pull through even yet. But the most taking part of the whole programme was afforded by the three comedians, whose efforts I enclose. You will notice that each begins with exactly the same four lines. Of course, I deprecate cribbing, but you really can't help admiring this sort of thing.
Presently the two men were out on the road driving the black horse. He went well enough, and seemed afraid of nothing. "There's not much the matter with this animal except the tail and the cribbing, I guess," said the doctor. "As for the tail, that is simply a question of ornament and taste. The cribbing is more serious, of course, but I guess Sam Tucker won't be in any danger of his life."
"You'd better go for your sister, then," Bannon replied. Max hesitated. "You meant for me to bring her?" "Yes, I guess you might as well." Bannon stood looking after Max as he walked along the railroad track out into the open air. Then he glanced up between the smooth walls of cribbing that seemed to draw closer and closer together until they ended, far overhead, in a rectangle of blue sky.
They would not call it stealing but "bagging a thing," or, at the worst, "cribbing it" concealing the villainy under a new name, a name with no very odious associations attached to it; just as they called lying "cramming," under which title it sounded much less repulsive.
"Nothing doing until we get safely out of town," said Hugh, firmly; "so you'll have to put the brake on your impatience." "Huh!" grumbled Thad, "that sounds as if what you had to tell me was of vast importance, so that you didn't want to run any risk of others cribbing the news. Now you have got me guessing to beat the band, Hugh.
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