“We’ll have to put it off till some other time,” he remarked. “That stone bruise of mine is hurting me anyway, and then, too, I’ve been working pretty hard this afternoon. Holding that bully down was no cinch.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said Skeets unbelievingly. “All you had to do was to sit still, and that’s the easiest thing you do. He couldn’t move any more than if he’d had one of the Pyramids resting on him.”
Pee Wee treated this slighting reference to his really great achievements with the silent scorn it deserved.
“Oh, well,” observed Sparrow, “the doughnuts will keep till some other time.”
“But when that time comes will Pee Wee have the dime?” questioned Shiner incredulously.
“I will,” pledged Pee Wee. And then rising to unusual heights he added: “I promised you fellows two doughnuts to divide among you. I’ll double that. I’ll make it four.”
CHAPTER IV
WHIZZING IT OVER
The last weeks previous to the beginning of the summer vacation were busy ones for the boys. They had to prepare for final examinations, and for those who had shirked their work through the term this was a period of grief and lamentation.
Bobby and Fred had done good work in their studies right along, and the coming tests had no terrors for them.