“Let’s go on the merry-go-round!” cried Andy. “Come on!” and he caught Alice Strobell by the arm.
“I’ll go if Annie will go,” answered Alice.
“All right, come on, Annie,” said Randy, and the two couples lost no time in getting on the wooden horses, which speedily whirled them around and around.
A number of the others followed, including the Rover girls and Gif and Spouter. Ruth said she did not care for such a ride, and she and Jack wandered off for a walk with May and Fred behind them.
In a short while the amusement park began to fill up and there were shrieks of laughter from the young folks and merry music from the band. Not a few of the visitors were from Longley Academy, bent on having a good time in spite of their defeats on the lake.
“I should think they’d want to go home,” said Dan Soppinger, who was present.
“Oh, well, you can’t blame them for wanting some consolation,” answered Walt Baxter. And then Walt added quickly: “I think we ought to treat ’em as nicely as possible, Dan.”
“Oh, sure! we’ll treat ’em all right enough,” was the ready reply. “I like some of those fellows first rate, even if they do go to Longley. It’s only such cads as Flanders that I can’t bear.”
While Jack and Fred were strolling along with the two girls from Clearwater Hall they were much surprised to see Tommy Flanders, Paul Halliday and Billy Sands coming along a bypath with Codfish Stowell between them. The latter did not for the instant notice our friends, who were screened somewhat by bushes.