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"That is something like!" cried Roger, during the singing. "We'll let folks in this neighborhood know that we have arrived."

"Farmer Brown will be glad to know it,—I don't think," came from Buster Beggs.

"Oh, he'll love it!" answered Roger, and then he turned to Dave. "Buster and a lot of the others once took Farmer Brown's calf and hoisted it to the roof of the gymnasium building. They tied the calf to the center of the roof, so you couldn't see the animal from the playground. The calf bawled ferociously, and it was a long time before the teachers and the hired men could find out where the sounds came from."

"What did the farmer do?"

"He threatened to have somebody locked up, but nothing came of it. But he says he has a gun now, and if any boys come to his farm again he'll fill 'em full of shot."

"Well, you can't blame him much," answered Dave, with a smile. "I'd hate to have a calf of mine put up on a roof."

"Yes, but just the same, Dave, Brown missed it by raising such a row. We used to go over on