"We decided that whatever we did do, there were certain stunts we wouldn't do."
"Namely?"
"Swap signs and take off gates and brilliant jokes of that sort."
"As a Service Club you couldn't very well crack jokes whose point lies in some one's discomfort, could you?"
"Those things have looked like dog mean tricks to me and not jokes at all ever since I saw an old woman at the upper end of Main Street trying to hang her gate last year the day after Hallowe'en."
"Too heavy for her?"
"I should say so. She couldn't do anything with it. I offered to help her, and she said, 'You might as well, for I suppose you had the fun of unhanging it last night'."
"A false accusation, I suppose."
"It happened to be that time, but I had done it before," confessed Roger, flushing.
"You never happened to see the result of it before."