"Cut out the end-man explanations. Give us the kernel!" shouted one boy.
"What the man on the clubhouse steps said," Dick went ahead, "should be a model to everyone. It is of especial value to all who are tempted to talk too fast and then to think an hour later."
"Yes, but what did he say—-the man on the clubhouse steps?" howled
Harry Hazelton.
"You will know, in a minute," Dick assured his hearers. "Yet, before telling you, I want to impress upon you that, whenever you are tempted to be angry, to be harsh in judgments, or when you can think only ill of your neighbor, then you should always hark back to just what the man on the clubhouse steps said."
There was a pause and silence, the latter broken by Danny Grin demanding impatiently:
"Well, what did he say?"
"You see," Dick explained, "the man was all alone on the clubhouse steps."
"Yes, yes."
"And he wasn't exactly sociable by nature."
"Go on!"