"'Cos they can't! How could they call so he'd hear through the rock?"
"Did Auntie Merrill put 'em in there?"
"Yes; she did,—or some of her mur-murmurdons."
"Her what?"
Horace Winslow broke into the conversation.
"Don't you know what murmidons are? They're big woolly elephants with long tusks."
"Oh, get out! Auntie Merrill hasn't got any. You think you're stuffin' me, but you ain't!"
Peter seemed to be willing to change the subject, and get on to the main issue.
"We'll divide into two regiments,—I'll take command of one, and Rob of the other. I'll take Horace and Sam, and Rob can take Ed Mason and Jimmy. We'll stay here, an' you can go down into Sam's yard an' climb over the fence, an' go up by the path next the Nortons' house. Then we'll attack the house from two sides at once. Now, go on, Rob."