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 any form, and you must be temperate in all things—in eating, drinking and talking. They'll fine you if you use any language while you are out with your companions, that you wouldn't use if your mother or sister was present. Now sit down here, and if you see any body coming, you can put your cigars out of sight."

"But we don't know all the members of the club," said Loren.

"No difference. Don't let any one see you with a weed in your mouth. If you do, good-by to all your chances of being a Toxophilite."

"Why, it's the meanest little town I ever heard of!" exclaimed Ralph, who was greatly surprised as well as disgusted. "I didn't suppose that there were any such boys in this wicked world. I thought they all lived in Utopia."

"So did I, until I found some of them right here in Mount Airy," answered Prime. "The girls are at the bottom of it—you know that they are never easy unless they are kicking up a row of some kind—and if I had been a member of the club when it was organized, wouldn't