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 "Now that I look back at it, I don't see how I kept my hands off that Hastings boy while he was talking so insolently to me," said Tom. "He told me that he didn't care who or what my father was, but I couldn't get into the archery club, and that was all there was about it. They must stick to their constitution, no matter if the world goes to pieces on account of their obstinacy. He asked me to join the canoe and yacht clubs, but said they never asked any body to apply for admission to the Toxophilites."

"I guess Ralph and I know just what he said to you first and last," remarked Loren, "for Sheldon talked to us in about the same way. We are going to enter for the upset race."

"I thought you would," answered Tom, "and so I made up my mind to go in too. We'll make it our business to see that neither Sheldon nor Wayring wins that or any other race. If we find that we can't beat them by fair means, and I have an idea that I can paddle a boat about as fast as the next boy, although I never got into one until last week,