“Colby to the front, first, last, and all the time!”
“There is only one military academy on this lake, and that’s good old Colby!”
“Don’t forget to show ’em what real rowing means!”
And then came cries and toots and rattles from both schools until the noise was fairly deafening and the girls, who were between the two factions, had to hold their ears.
“Oh, I do hope Colby Hall wins!” whispered Ruth to Martha.
“You don’t wish it any more than I do,” was the quick reply.
“Spouter is going to row with Andy and Randy and Dan Soppinger,” put in May. “Oh, I do hope they come out ahead!”
“I just heard something,” put in another girl, Alice Strobell by name. “Tommy Flanders is going to row in the four-oared race and Paul Halliday and Billy Sands and another cadet are to be with him.”
“Oh, in that case they’ll row against our crowd!” cried Annie Larkins, her chum. And then the brass band struck up and everybody listened to the music.