"What is the matter with you, Stowell—are you blind?" he demanded.
"Blind?" queried the sneak of the school, bewildered. "What do you mean?"
"Can't you see that this is only a stuffed figure? And it hasn't any head on, either; only a handkerchief tied around some underwear with a cap stuck on top."
"Oh, Captain Dale, you don't mean it!" cried Codfish, and fell back against the wall, too upset to say more.
"But I do mean it," went on the military man, and reached for the dummy, which immediately toppled over on the floor, the head and cap rolling in one direction and the legs and shoes in another. "It's nothing but an old uniform stuffed out."
"Where's them mice?" cried Job Plunger in a shrill voice. "Where's them mice, I say?"
"You'll have to find them, Plunger," answered Captain Dale.
"Behind 'em?" remarked the deaf janitor. "Behind where?"
"I did not say behind anything," shouted the captain. "I said you'd have to find them."
"Oh. Well, I'll find 'em if they're in the room," said Plunger.