 Consequently, they both found themselves cut from the show entirely and jobless (Morash 88).One evening, not long after the “Octoroon” incident, in the spring of 1860, Dion was walking home when he felt the sudden urge to venture into a bookstore he had passed a hundred times before.He came out moments later with a Gerald Griffin novel, “The Collegians” which was written in 1829 (Morash 88).