“Hurrah, boys, let her flicker!” cried Fred, as he rushed forward. “Everybody join in!” he added, and then boomed out with this well-known Hall refrain:
| “Who are we? Can’t you see? Colby Hall! Dum! Dum! Dum, dum, dum! Here we come with fife and drum! Colby! Colby! Colby Hall!” |
“That’s the stuff!” cried Jack. “Let’s have it again!” And then the refrain boomed out louder than ever.
“Come on! Let’s march around the school,” came from Gif, and he caught up a firebrand as he spoke.
A number of others were quick to follow his example, and in a minute more a torchlight procession was in progress, winding along over the campus, around the school, and through the edge of the woods beyond. Then the boys came back by way of the barns and sheds in the rear.
“Look out that you don’t set something on fire,” warned Jack.
“Something is on fire already!” burst out Andy suddenly.
“You don’t say!” queried Spouter.
“Where is the fire?” demanded half a dozen others, looking around anxiously.
“Right down there,” declared the fun-loving Rover, and pointed to the bonfires along the river.