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Rh "The sophs are going to try it on to-night, to get square about the bell clapper. I just heard it."

"That's the stuff!" cried Phil Clinton. "Now we'll get a chance to have some fun."

"And I'll pay 'em back for slashing my hat," added Ford Fenton. "My uncle says"

But what his respected relative had remarked was not learned, as the boys rushed from the room to prepare for the ordeal that they knew awaited them.