“Sounds as if you were afraid,” put in Fred.
“Oh, I’m not afraid. But I like to pick my opponents.”
“Well, we’ll be ready for you any time you say,” called out Gif, after a few whispered words with his companions. And thereupon he and his chums rowed away.
CHAPTER XXI
THE BIG BEAR
“I wonder if we’ll hear from them again,” remarked Spouter, after the rowboat had gotten out of the hearing of the Longley cadets.
“We’ll hear from them if Maxwell and Mason have their say,” answered Jack. “Those two chaps seem to be pretty decent fellows.”
“Maybe they’ll shame the others into some sort of a contest,” was Randy’s comment.
“If they don’t offer to do something it will show they’re afraid,” came from Andy.
“I’d like to play a game of baseball with them,” said Jack. He had been very sorry not to be able to get in the games held during the school term.