Whispering Tongues
by Homer Greene
Publication date 2021-09-27
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, fiction, college, juvenile, fall from grace, hazing
LibriVox recording of Whispering Tongues by Homer Greene.
Read in English by Donald Cummings
Parmenter and Lee are good friends who attend Concord College. But a hazing incident tears the friendship apart, and affects the lives of both the hazers and the hazee. And the whispering tongues of classmates of falsehoods, jealousy and rumor, serve only to make matters worse. Another heart-warming tale of disgrace and redemption from Homer Greene. (Summary by Donald Cummings)
chapter 1 of whispering tongues published 1902 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org reading by donald cummings whispering tongues by homer greene to professor william wells lld known and loved by many generations of union college students as billy wells this little volume is affectionately inscribed alas they have been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth and constancy lives in realms above and life is thorny and youth is vain and to be wrought with one we love doth work like madness in the brain samuel taylor coleridge chapter 1 the moonlight rush it's the way we have it all concord it's a way we have at old concord it's a way we have at old concord to drive dull care away one moonlight evening in the early spring under a cloudless sky a party of 12 concord college sophomores sang these lines as they marched up the street toward the college grounds they were young all in a happy mood they kept stepped to the strokes of their canes on the pavement and swung along with vigor and elasticity making the air throb with herolicking songs parmenter was with them he was the tenor voice that rang out with such strength and clearness above the others he was the leader of his class in favor with the faculty popular with his fellows a welcome guest at any gathering the party passed on up the hill through the college gate and along the terrace still singing they halted in front of professor samuel lee's residence face toward it and begin a new song here's to sammy lee drink it down bring it down here's to sammy lee drink it down drink it down here's to sammy lee and a right good fellow he drink it down drink it down drink it down down down bomb of gilead gilead bomb of gilead gilead bomb of gilead way down on the bingo farm the last words were hardly out of the mouths of the singers before the door of the house was opened and from the square of light thus made the old professor himself stepped out upon the porch thank you young gentleman he said pleasantly this is a glorious night for a song i've heard students sing along this terrace for 20 years and more and i never liked their songs better than i do tonight the music of them grows upon me always thank you again gentlemen and good night you're welcome sammy shouted one irrepressible from the group while all the rest responded with a hearty good night no one intended to be disrespectful to professor lee the use of his nickname was meant as a mark of affection and he understood it so but in the classroom his dignity was never trespassed upon there were one or two good stories handed down from class to class narrating the just fate that befell audacious students of the past who had ventured to be rude to sammy these possibly apocryphal incidents made him more popular and in private he was the trusted friend of every student at concord college besides that he had a boy of his own an only child with whom he kept in close sympathy and in whom the best and brightest of all his hopes were centered this boy charlie was a member of the southmoor class he was a bright lovable popular fellow impetuous perhaps somewhat lacking instability but...
