“The largest brook-trout that was ever caught was taken in the Rangeley lakes, and weighed a trifle over ten pounds,” continued Huggins. “And lastly, the members of the order Salmonidæ don’t live in the muddy, stagnant bayous you have down South. They want clear cold water.”
“Why do you want to get to windward of your father?” inquired Lester, who thought it best to change the subject.
“To pay him for sending me to this school,” replied Huggins.
“And you think you know how to do it?”
“I do.”
Lester became interested. He took off his hat and overcoat and sat down on the edge of his bed.
CHAPTER III.
LESTER BRIGHAM’S IDEA.
“If one might judge by the way you talk and act, you didn’t want to come to this school,” said Lester.