Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — Two of a Kind. [ARTICLE]

Two of a Kind.

When Frank Norris, author of "Th< Octopus,” wag a Harvard freshmato be did not attend recitations as sedw lously as the faculty desired, fits had an aversion to mathematics ana to one or two other of the dryee branches of learning, and was too rrs* quently to be found, In pleasant weather, on a certain bench, under a| certain elm, with pipe and book. There was an Instructor whose window looked down upon young Norris* favorite seat One day this Instructor/ leaning fax out, called: “Mr. Norris, I never look out of thia window but I see you Idling down there on that bench.” Norris replied: —.— “Well, Mr. Blank, I never look mi from this bench but I see yop idling! there at that window.”