"No, we haven't been lazy, we've just been waiting for opportunity to knock at our door—"
(Rap—rap—rap, rap—rap—rap—rap.)
Babe looked startled and swallowed hard. Then, his sense of humor bobbing to the surface again, he grinned.
"That's Mr. Opportunity," he said.
"No, it wasn't," said Romper, rushing to the window, "it was a blasted old bill poster tacking a sign on Headquarters— Hi! git out o' there! This isn't an old barn!" he shouted to the bill poster.
But that individual never heard him and kept tacking away until the bill was up. Then he went on down the road whistling merrily.
"Hang it, Headquarters will look like a billboard soon. I'm going down to pull his blooming old sign off our wall," said Romper, as he disappeared through the doorway and stamped down the stairs. But a few moments later he seemed to have changed his mind, for he was heard to shout:
"Hi, fellows, come on down. It's worth reading anyway." And what the scouts read when they crowded about him was:
$200 In Prizes for Brown Tail Moth Exterminators.
The Town of Woodbridge is offering $200 in prizes to the individuals who can advance and demonstrate a practical method of exterminating the Brown Tail Moths that are infesting the trees in the township. For particulars apply to Mayor's Office, Town Hall.