“He was not in the race with Merrill, as you now know. I tell you the fellow is a wonder in the water, and the surgeon said he must have a double pair of lungs.”
“He certainly played with Ferd Randall.”
“He did not show what he could do. Why, at home they called him the ‘boy fish.’”
“Say, Clemmons,” said Ferd Randall suddenly.
“Well?”
“I wonder if he’s going to do the same way in his class at examination?”
“No, for I am in the class, you know,” was the conceited response.
“That’s so, I hadn’t thought of that,” replied Randall, and Clemmons wondered if he was in earnest or sarcastic.