"I know one thing," he said abruptly.
"Do you?" said Will Bailey in a mocking tone. "That's very strange!" Will felt above Tip, and took care to let him know it.
Ellis turned a quick, indignant glance on him; then spoke to Tip in a kind and interested tone: "What were you going to say, Tip."
"That, if I were the minister's son, I wouldn't make fun of the Bible."
Ellis's face was crimson in an instant. "What do you mean by that?" he asked haughtily.
"Just what I say," was Tip's cool reply.
"Do you pretend to say that I make fun of the Bible?"
"Humph! Didn't I hear you?"
"No," said Ellis, in a heat, "you didn't! and I'd thank you not to say so neither."
"Well, now," said Tip, "I'll leave it to any boy here if you didn't. When a fellow takes a thing in the Bible and twists it around, and makes believe it means some little silly thing that it don't mean at all, I call that making fun."