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Rh mug would make more of a hit than a pennant."

"I don't think so," responded Lanny. "Besides," he added, with a smile, "that mug would cost us money, and the pennant won't!" The others laughed.

"Still," said Arthur Beaton, "a few of us might dig down for it. You can get a pretty good-looking mug for three dollars."

"Speak for yourself, old scout," protested Guy. "I'm poorer than the Athletic Committee, and that's pretty poor! Let's make it a pennant. It doesn't matter what it is, really, so long as it is understood that the thing's worth winning. It could be made of silk and have a suitable inscription on it, like 'For Valor' No, that wouldn't do. 'For Worth?' 'For'"

"For Instance," laughed Lanny. "Never mind an inscription. Just have 'C. H. S.' on it."

"With a winged foot," suggested Arthur.

"Then if I won it throwing the hammer," said Harry Partridge, "it wouldn't be what you'd call appropriate, would it?"

"In a general way" began Arthur.

"I've got it," interrupted Lanny. "A purple silk pennant with a green laurel wreath inclosing the letters 'C. H. S.' in white. How's that?"

"Sounds mighty good-looking," replied Sears,