"A slight feeling of uneasiness," said the Tennessee Shad solemnly, when Macnooder had departed—"a slight feeling of uneasiness is stealing over me, as the poet says."
"Let's have a look at the articles of incorporation," said Stover, who sat down with Dennis to study them.
"We're the advisory board," said Dennis stoutly.
"He's got fifty-one per cent. of the stock, though," said Dink.
"But we've got forty-nine!"
The Tennessee Shad, who had not risen from his chair as it involved extraordinary exertion, was heard repeating in a lonely sort of way to himself:
"A slight feeling of uneasiness."
By the next nightfall every room in the Kennedy was equipped with a Complete Sleep Prolonger. Their reception was exactly as Macnooder had foreseen. At first a roar went up as soon as the simplicity of the device was unearthed, but the thought of the precious bonuses soon quelled the revolt.
Besides, there was no doubt of the great humanizing effects of the invention, and the demand that it would awaken throughout the whole school.
But an obstacle arose to even the deep-laid plans of Macnooder himself. As the Third Triumvirate Manufacturing Company had bought its stock from the Eureka Purchasing Company—which had cornered the alarm-clock market—it followed that the alarm clocks were distinctly second rate.