A proposal of this kind under such circumstances is always favorably received by true Boy Scouts. There was a general note of approval, and Dr. Byrd inquired:
“Well, what shall it be first?”
“Flathead Mountain,” suggested Pickles.
“Good!” exclaimed Frank Bowler.
“And have somebody slam somebody in the face,” proposed Clayton White, the joker of the school. “That’ll suit ‘Bad.’”
Frank Bowler had been nicknamed “Bad” because he was continually talking about “clipping somebody on the jaw,” or “slamming some one in the face,” or “putting somebody to the bad.”
“I’ll push you one on the chin if you don’t close your face,” growled “Bad” in an undertone to the last speaker.
Clayton only grinned. He was not at all afraid, as he was a year older than Frank and thought himself stronger.
“Well, who has something more to add to the story of Flathead?” inquired the owner of Lakefarm.
“I have,” replied Hal Kenyon.