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Rh replied Lanny. "You see, I had a fine start on you, Gordie. I don't know just what my time was for the distance, but I'll bet it was mighty good. I'm pretty sure that I did the first two-twenty yards in something under twenty seconds! As for Morris, I never saw him. He says he fell over something and lay in the grass for about half an hour and then went home by way of the river. Something of a detour, that!"

"Well, tell me one thing, Lanny," said Dick. "Did the rolling do the field any good?"

Lanny became almost animated. "It certainly did! Want to go over and have a look at it?" Dick shook his head. "Well, it made a lot of difference. Of course, as I told the others, it ought to have been gone over two or three times to get it in real good shape, but it's at least a hundred per cent. better than it was before. I was afraid it might be too dry, but it wasn't. That old roller just squashed it right down in great style. I think we broke the board around the track in a few places, but it was pretty rotten anyway."

"That's good; I mean about the field. As I just said to Gordie, if you fellows have got to go to jail it's sort of a satisfaction that you accomplished something. I'll send you fruit and old magazines now and then, and a month will soon pass."