CHAPTER XXV
STUNG
"I ain't hardly had a decent swim all summer," Sube complained to Gizzard one day late in August. "It's all right to go in on the sly once in a while, but when you got to do it all the time it gets to be a chestnut."
"Well, why don't we fix up some other swimmin'-hole?" suggested Gizzard.
"The Unionville hole is the only decent one there is!" returned Sube bitterly. "And I'm goin'ta fix that Bigmouth Bissett so's he won't come botherin' when I'm in swimmin'! That's what I'm goin'ta do!"
Gizzard's interest was aroused at once. "What you goin' to do to 'em?" he asked.
"Never you mind! I'll fix 'em! He'll be sorry he ever monkeyed around me!"
"But how'll you fix 'em?" Gizzard insisted.
"You jus' wait! I'll show you!"
To tell the truth Sube did not then know what he was going to do to his arch enemy. But he had supreme faith that there is always something to be done if one can only think of it. Relations had been strained ever since the limburger episode. Seth Bissett had sworn that he would avenge himself, and he was everywhere regarded as a gentleman of his word in matters of vengeance.