"Well, what about 'Ullo,' Ralph?" was Walter's rejoinder.
"Why, that it is a queer thing for you to say," replied Ralph, good-humouredly.
"We were trespassing, weren't we?"
"Trespassing? Oh, bother! We did not do any harm, did we?"
"That has nothing to do with it. We had no business there, without leave asked," said Walter.
"Come to that, I expect if we were to wait for leave asked, our line would never be surveyed at all," Ralph concluded.
"And a good thing too," replied the disputant. "Cutting up the country for railroads! If I was a farmer I wouldn't stand it."
"But not being a farmer, but a civil engineer, what then?"
"What difference does that make? Right is right, isn't it?"
"And wrong is wrong," added the good-tempered principal. "But, Walter, dear fellow, what has come over you to put you out of sorts?"