"Aw—well—I have a stone bruise," explained Pee Wee, hesitatingly.
"You must have it from sitting so much, then," declared Jimmy, with a loud laugh. "You better take them around yourself, or the captain will be after you."
"You needn't show us about if it is very, very painful," suggested Bobby, beginning to understand the fat boy now.
"Guess we can find our way around alone," grunted Fred.
"Aw well! we won't row about it," said Pee Wee, getting up slowly. "But that stone bruise—"
However, the trouble in question seemed, later, to be of a shifting nature, for first Pee Wee favored his right foot and then his left.
It must be confessed that Perry Wise was a very lazy boy, but he was a good natured one, and when once the exploration party was started, he played the part of show-master very well indeed.
They went through the school rooms and up to the dormitories first. In the second dormitory, where the smaller boys slept, in a pair of twin beds in one corner, Bobby and Fred were billeted.
"And no pillow fights, or other ructions, after 'lights out,' unless you ask the captain first," warned Pee Wee.
"Seems to me this captain has a lot to say around here," growled Fred.