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 minded if we helped each other with our Latin." Oh! what an innocent look was on his face!

"Oh!—er—um—and you are studying Latin?" asked the professor, while a pleased smile replaced his frown.

"Yes, Professor," put in Peaches. "And I can't seem to remember, nor find, what the neuter plural accusative of 'some' is. I have gone as far as aliquos—aliquas, but—"

"Aliqua—aliqua!" exclaimed the Professor quickly. "You ought not to forget that. We had it in class the other day."

"Oh, yes, so we did!" exclaimed Teeter. "I just remember now; don't you, Joe?"

"Yes," murmured Joe, wondering whether or not they had turned the tables on the teacher.

"I am glad to see you so studious," went on Mr. Rodd. "And I see you do not neglect your physics, either. Ah—er—what is the red liquid in the bottles," and he looked at what remained of the strawberry pop.

It was the question Tom and Joe had feared would be asked. But Teeter was equal to the emergency.

"Professor," he a9ked innocently, "isn't there some rule regarding quis used in the indefinite in connection with aliquis?"