“What about it?”
“He shall help us.”
“How?”
“The donkey’s our plan. We’ll play him off against the ghost, and Pat! The donkey was once a ghost himself. He’ll be the very one to do the thing up properly; he’s had experience. After performing so successfully at the hole, at our expense, you can’t place any limit to his capacity. Yes, boys, the donkey’s the very man.”
“I don’t see what good the donkey’s going to be,” said Phil.
“What good?—the very thing we want.”
“How?” asked Bruce.
“Pat won’t come up here to get frightened,” said Arthur.
“And his room is too far up for us to make the donkey bray under it,” said Tom.
“.All very true,” said Bart; “but then what’s to prevent our marching the donkey up into the garret?”