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Rh "And how is everybody at the Hall?" put in Phil Lawrence.

"Very well, sir."

"Many here yet?"

"About half the students, sir."

"This seems a little like old times," came from Buster Beggs, as he climbed up beside the driver. "Horsehair, do you remember when you drove me to the station last?"

"Remember? I shan't never forget it. Master Beggs," came from the stage driver. "But don't you try no tricks on this team, or we'll have trouble. That off horse ain't as gentle as he might be."

"In you go, Dave!" cried Roger. "Don't wait to be invited or you'll get left. Horsehair, this is a new student, Mr. Dave Porter. Dave, this is Mr. Horsehair Jackson Sampson Washington Lincoln Lemond, stage driver, actor, acrobat, and elocutionist."

"If he isn't on one stage he's on another," put in Phil Lawrence.

"Now, come——" began the stage driver, pleadingly.

"Isn't it true, Horsehair? Didn't you act, not once but half a dozen times? He was the cow in 'Back to the Farm,' the butler in 'The Millionaire's Secret,' and a real Roman soldier in the Boston revival of 'Julius Cæsar.'"