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Rh out on the campus. There, at the top of the pole, was a figure which looked like a man, with outstretched arms.

"What student has dared climb up there?" exclaimed the head of the college. "Send for Mr. Zane at once," he added to Professor Newton, who had accompanied him. "He must be severely punished—the venturesome student, I mean."

"I hardly think that is a student," replied Mr. Newton.

"Do you mean to say it is some outsider?"

"I think it is no one at all, Dr. Churchill. I believe it is an effigy. See how stiff the arms and legs are."

"I believe you are right," admitted the venerable doctor.

His belief was confirmed a moment later, for a farmer, who was driving along the river road, left his team, and came up the campus, a broad smile covering his face.

"Good-morning, Dr. Churchill," he said. "Is this a new course in eddercation you're givin' the boys?"

"Ah, good-morning, Mr. Oakes. What do you mean?"

"Why, I see you've got a scarecrow up on that liberty pole. I thought maybe you was addin' a course in agriculture to your studies. Only if I was you I wouldn't put a scarecrow up so high.