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 took off thirty per cent. So it would only make it about twelve dollars."

"Yes, and I so hoped we could get the cabinet too," said Louise.

"Well, we've tackled about everyone in school," said Gordon. "I can give another dollar, I guess, but that doesn't help much."

"The trouble is," said Morris, "that most of the fellows are down on Mr. Grayson about the coaching business."

"Don't see why they should be," said Lanny, "after Saturday's game. Seems to me that ought to prove that we can win without paying money for a professional coach."

"Of course," agreed Morris hurriedly, darting an anxious glance at Dick, fearing he had said something to hurt him. "Maybe they think differently about it now. How would it do to ask fellows again?"

Gordon groaned. "I absolutely refuse," he asserted. "If we have got to do that someone will have to take my list."

"How many are there who haven't been asked?" inquired May Burnham.

"Only about twenty," replied Louise, "and most of them are the younger boys."