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 CHAPTER XXIV

WATTLES AGREES

The teams trailed off and the rival cheering sections became concertedly vocal once more. One had to either cheer or sing if only to keep warm! The Wolcott songsters followed the band through a martial effort that wasn't a great success because most of the fellows had forgotten the words and sang "dum-ti-dum-dum" instead. Then Dodson, Wyndham cheer captain, tossed aside his big blue megaphone and threw his arms aloft.

"Let's have 'We Beat Her,' fellows! Everybody into it and make it snappy. All right! 'We-e-e—'!"

Whereupon the visiting contingent answered with their latest effusion, sung to the tune of a popular ballad of the year:

"We beat her back in '16, in '17 once more; We swamped her in '20 with a sixteen-nothing score! We beat her in '21 when she couldn't hold the ball, But this year, on her own field, we'll beat her worst of all!"

Wyndham had no band to aid—or hinder—but she made the welkin ring. Dodson, white-sweatered, leaped and danced and kept time with waving arms