“Hurrah, we are to go!” shouted Andy. “Aren’t you glad, Pep?”
“To be sure I am.”
“It’s Reff Ritter an’ Coulter who are mad, so they are,” came from Emerald.
“Didn’t they pass?” asked Stuffer.
“They did not.”
“I had a tight squeeze, with old Crabtree,” came from Bart Conners. “He came close to cutting me out of the fun.”
“The same here,” said Henry Lee. “Oh, but I do wish we could get rid of him.”
“Your wish is to be gratified—at least for awhile,” said Joe Nelson. “I just got the news. Mr. Crabtree is going to Boston on business and may not come back for the balance of this term.”
“Hurrah!” shouted several students in unison.
“I thought you would like to get up a petition, asking him to remain,” went on Joe, with a wink.