CHAPTER IV
A Startling Experiment
The driveway, or Little Road, as Judy called it, went down a steep slope from the main road. Then it crossed Dry Brook, went through the grove and up another slope, where it took a half-turn, like a half-circle, in front of the house and ended at the barn. Horace stopped his car on the downward slope and they all got out.
“Well, here we are opposite the barn. Now for the experiment. Who wants to yell?” Judy asked.
“Let’s all do it together,” Honey suggested. “Do you remember our old school yell?
“Boom ta! Boom ta! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Farringdon Girls’ High School, give us room!”
“Oh, Honey, let’s not give that one,” Judy objected. “It always makes me think of when the old high school burned down.”
“We had a better one at Boys’ High—”
“And a still better one back in Roulsville before the flood,” Judy interrupted. “Horace, do you remember how it went? It meant, ‘This is where we’re hiding,’ and if you tried hard you could pick the word hiding out of the jumble of nonsense.”