“Why, they’re dummies!” he gasped. “Straw figures!” And so they proved.
“All over!” announced a man. “Have another wash. It will do you good.”
“Not for mine,” declared Jack. “I’m clean enough to last a month.”
“I’m going to have some more,” announced Walter.
“So am I,” declared Ed. “I’ll go through with the girls this time.”
“And there’s Paul yet to be initiated,” added Walter.
They hurried back to where they had left their friends.
“The greatest ever!” declared Jack. “I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. Go ahead, girls. It’s the greatest fun!”
“But those wringers?” faltered Bess. “Aren’t you pressed flat?”
“Try it—and see,” replied Jack, all unconscious of the joke he was perpetrating at the expense of the plump girl.