Elgert, standing near them, turned with a frown.
"Shut up that howling, you young cubs!" he growled fiercely; but from the other side of the playground, and from the Fifths, the same words came.
Elgert turned and went into school. He was furious. He had come down thinking that he had a good chance of getting Ralph into disgrace, and here the fellows were actually praising him! It was gall to Horace Elgert; and, through the window, still came the sounds of the refrain being shouted below—
For he's a jolly good fellow,
And so say all of us!
CHAPTER XXII AN AFTERNOON RAMBLE
"I say, you two chaps, what are you going to do this afternoon?"
The question was asked by Tom Warren, as Ralph and Charlton stood at the entrance to the playground.