Several others gave their testimony to the same effect, or declared that they had drank none since they joined the school.
"I see you are trying to get up a rebellion," said Matt Randolph. "I have drank lager beer a few times in New York, but not a drop since I came to this school. I don't object to the uniform, and I think the regulation requiring it is a very reasonable one. But I am not going to jaw about it now. All the Gildrocks to the boat."
"All the Winooskis to the boat," added Dory Dornwood.
About two thirds of the students followed the coxswains to the lake. It looked as though the other third intended to rebel at once, for they remained in the dressing-room after the others had gone.
CHAPTER II. AN IMPROMPTU RACE BETWEEN THE BEECH HILL BARGES.
"Here are eight of us, and not one of the eight has touched any beer since he joined the school," said Lew Shoreham, after the majority of the boys had gone, and he had got the bearings of the question under discussion.
"I am in favor of standing out, for one," added Tom Ridley. "I am willing to do my duty and obey all the rules, but I am not going to be rigged out like a state-prison bird when I haven't done anything out of the way."
"It looks like punishing the whole crowd for the sins of the two fellows who drank the beer," continued Harry Franklin.