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AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL VALENTINE.
BY RICHARD BARRY.
A very strange old room it was, in a very strange old house, part ofwhich was brick, and part of which was wood. The wood had been cut fromthe neighboring hill-sides, and the brick had traversed many thousandsof miles from across the Atlantic in a little ship with a strange Dutchname. There was but one older house in the street, and from the cornerwindow of the room one could just catch a glimpse of the spires of thecollege chapel; on winter days when the leaves were off the trees thecollege buildings could be seen.
The Professor, when he came in, announced his arrival by noisilyscraping the so