Sam  was  not  sufficiently  experienced  in  prize-
winning  to  take  his  honors  easily,  especially
when  Margaret  Sedgwick  roguishly  assumed  a
clean  record  of  A's  as  a  part  of  his  title  to  the

cup,  and  insisted  on  knowing  all  details.    He

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managed  to  escape  these  embarrassing  attentions
by  calling  up  Moorhead  and  presenting  him  as  the
banner  prize-catcher  of  the  class;  and  presently,
on  the  pretext  of  helping  his  room-mate  carry
home  his  load  of  Shakespeares,  he  succeeded  in
getting  safely  away.
The  next  morning  when  Sam  called  at  the
Sedgwicks'  to  see  his  mother,  he  found  her  on  the
garden  piazza,  with  a  Boston  paper  on  her  lap.
