 Gary at ferox Assignment for tomorrow make notes of that if you please and be prepared for recitation tomorrow afternoon The last few moments of this period I want you to listen to the recitation of a special assignment which I've asked cadets Dugan and our camel to prepare Cadet Dugan. Are you ready? Yes, sir. Very well. You may begin. Well, this recitation is the story of Damon and Finthias Finthias was really the man's name Bruce and I found out it wasn't Pythias at all Well Damon and Finthias were followers of Pythagoras an ancient Greek philosopher and Because of his belief Finthias was condemned to death by the emperor Dionysius Well Finthias expressed asked the emperor if he could be let off for a little while So he could go home and arrange his affairs at first the emperor didn't want to do that But finally well Damon made a pledge to the emperor that if Finthias didn't come back when he promised he Damon would forfeit his life for his friend So the emperor finally agreed and so Finthias finally left the prison and left his friend Damon there in his place Then Damon didn't know whether Finthias would get back when he said he would or not But well Damon didn't care because Finthias was a best friend he had and Damon was willing to give up his life for his friend and Then just as Damon thought the emperor would send for him to slay him Finthias showed up and Damon was saved But the emperor was so affected by the friendship between the two men that he let them both go free and then asked them a Tea himself couldn't join their friendship Well, I Yes, that's all of the story. Thank you do good Cadet dark Campbell. Yes, sir. Have you anything to add to the story? Dugan has just told us. Oh, no, sir. I think mr. Dugan has told the story very well Yes, I see of course Well cadet dark Campbell. Do you gain any basic lesson from this story of Damon and Finthias story, sir? I don't think I know exactly what you mean Well, I mean there's the story of Damon and Finthias convey any meaning to you other than being just a good story of ancient Grecian times Well, sir, well, of course, it does illustrate the great power of a true friendship Yes, yes, that's true of course very well. Thank you cadet dark Campbell. Yes, sir Yes friendship it is a powerful force and civilization Throughout the ages young gentlemen nothing has ever been permanently accomplished through bloodshed and war Every phase of the progress of humanity has been attained through brotherly love Amity and friendship. I think it was Robert Blair a port of the early 18th century who expressed it thus Friendship mysterious cement of the soul sweetener of life and soldier of society Well, come prepare to recite tomorrow upon the fall of Antioch and the capture of Valerian as a matter of fact Very well class dismissed That was a very good recitation you gave Mr. Dugan, thanks Lady you think Professor Custis was gonna tell us we could expect a test tomorrow, huh? Oh, I don't know Lee I haven't got the slightest idea Where are you going now? Oh I thought I might wander over to the gym and get in a little basketball practice I heard some of the other fellow say they were going over. That's well. I'll go with you I feel like having a little exercise myself Okay, come on. Let's get going. Mm-hmm Hey, there's Bruce to our Campbell just going out the door, too See a jerry. Yeah, wait a minute. I'll tell you when we get outside of Custis home So you know what Bruce is waiting for somebody. I bet it's red Morris. Oh, yeah, maybe Hello, Bruce. Good afternoon. Mr. Dugan. Mr. Phillips. Hi, Bruce What were you gonna say to me a couple of minutes ago Lee? Well, let's sit over there a minute on that alumni bench, huh? Okay? Okay, go ahead Well, I was going to ask you Maybe you don't want to talk about it Jerry. Well, sure go ahead Well, I'm just going to ask you how you got along with Bruce to our Campbell when you worked together last night on that problem Professor Custis gave you well, I can't figure it out I mean why Professor Custis had us work on that assignment together It certainly didn't have anything to do with the lesson today Why gee the story of Damon and Phineas happen in the fourth century BC We're studying about the Roman Empire in the second century AD. Yeah, I know Well, haven't you got any idea at all why Custis had you and Bruce work together on that assignment? Well, yeah, maybe I have don't you think that maybe it's because he found out about that little scrap you and Bruce almost had in Max and Well, he wanted to do whatever he could to make you and Bruce become friends. Mm-hmm Maybe you're right. Yeah, oh stormy weather's like that Jerry It always hurts him when two cadets have a misunderstanding about anything and I've heard that he does his level best to straighten it out between them Yeah Mm-hmm, but Well, you did get along all right with Bruce in the study hall library last night, didn't you? Oh, sure. We've got a couple of books and started looking up the story Bruce finally found it and Professor Custis his own book then we both read it together a couple of times Well, that was all there was to it Bruce went over to Trent Hall and I came back to the room. Yeah Yeah, I see. Hey, hey, you've got something you want to talk about. What is it? Well, yes, I do have something I'd like to say to you. Okay, shoot. You won't get sore. Will you soar? I'll go on. Why should I get sore? Go ahead? Say whatever you've got to say and get it off your chest Well, I've been wanting to say this for a long time Jerry, but well, I've never been able to get up enough nerve I guess nerve Say what's this all about? Have I got myself in bad worse than ever? Oh, no, no, that isn't it Well one what have you got to say? Jerry I've noticed a lot of times that you say things in a way that Well, I think they sound to other people a whole lot different than you really mean them to sound huh? Well, what are you talking about? I mean just exactly what I'm saying I think a lot of times you make remarks just in kidding of course that sound like you really mean them to other people Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about Lee. Well like the other night you looked at that black tie I wear with my dress uniform. Yeah, you made some crack about the ends being so frayed out I could braid them pretty soon. Oh, oh, yeah, I remember Jerry My mother gave me that necktie long before I ever came to Faroaks and just a few months before she died Oh gee Golly and Well, you told me what you said to Bruce Dow Campbell about if he didn't appreciate somebody trying to be his friend It was just a sap. Yeah well, I mean Well, Jerry sometimes you just mean those things of being sort of funny But sometimes maybe often than you think it means something a lot more to the person you say them to like Bruce when you said that to him He took it as an insult You didn't mean it that way at all. It's just your way of telling him He wanted to be his friend in spite of the fact that he's rooming with red Morrison But well, you said it in a way that Bruce didn't get what you meant and he got mad about it Then that Irish blood of yours flared up and if Mac hadn't of stopped at you and Bruce would have had a fight right then and there Yeah, I I get it. I I just talked too much for my own good. Oh, no, no, that isn't it at all Jerry I just mean that that you have Well kind of a sharp tongue, you know And if you just think every now and then that what you're thinking about saying might offend the other person Well, you might not say it. Maybe you might avoid a lot of trouble I guess you're right You you're not sore because I told you what I think are you huh? Oh, no Lee for gosh sakes, of course not it Well, it just makes me kind of mad that I've got myself into so much trouble by talking out of turn that's all Guess well, I'm not trying to alibi But I think maybe being with the folks in the circus so long and they're all grown up and me just being a kid I know you mean you sort of had to stand up for your own rights now and then and you've just gotten into the habit Is that it? Yeah, something like that. Well, don't worry about it Yeah, I didn't mean to make so much of an issue out of it But I just thought perhaps you might get along with all the rest of the cadets here sort of watch that sharp tongue of yours now I mean, yeah, thanks Lee. Hey, you bet. I'll watch it from now on Okay, here's your chance right now. What do you mean? Here comes Bruce. Oh, how do you do gentlemen? Hello Bruce. Oh, are you chaps planning to do anything right now? Planning to do anything. Well, I mean I thought you might like to join me and go over to mr. McLeod's for a bit of ice cream or something Oh, well Bruce Lee and I were just going over to the gym and get in a little basketball practice Don't you want to come along basketball? Oh No, really. Thank you. Just the same. Well, gee. Why not? Well, I'm afraid I'd be quite out of place in that sport I don't know a thing about it. Well golly. You can learn sure come on Bruce Oh, I don't think I'd be really quite comfortable trying it quite so soon I think I'd rather watch it two or three times first Well swell and come on over to the gym with Lee and me and watch your rest of the fellas practice Sure, Bruce and then after watching practice a few times You'll get the hang of the game and then you can come out for a practice game or two yourself Well, right then I'd be glad to walk over and just be a sort of spectator this afternoon. So well, come on Jerry yeah, may I compliment you on the recitation you made this afternoon for professor Custis on the story of Damon and Okay, Bruce and thanks you you don't mind if I make one little correction. Do you huh? Oh Of course not go right ahead Well, I think you neglected to mention that it was quite a bad storm which kept penteous from returning at the time he planned Oh, yeah, I guess I did forget that say thanks for not reminding professor Custis that I forgot it Oh, it wasn't that important. No, no, I guess it wasn't had a boy Jerry, huh? What do you mean by that mr. Nothing much. I just mean well, that's watching the old tongue dogan