“We’re goin’ swimmin’!” you called back to former associates.
“Aw, it’s too cold!” they complained.
“We don’t care. ‘Twont’ hurt us.”
“Bet you don’t go in!”
“Bet you a hundred dollars we do!”
“Bet you two hundred you don’t!”
(Dollars meant so much less to you in those days than in these.)
“You come along and see!”
“Uh-uh. We’re goin’ to play ball.”
Very well; let them stay and play ball, if they liked. You would be entitled to strut on the morrow.