“Oh, a friend of mine,” laughed Harry. “Who spoiled your nose for you?”
“A friend of mine!” chuckled Perry. Then, thrusting his way forward, “Here,” he said to one of Harry’s bearers, “let me get there. You’re too small for this job. Why, you’ve got the biggest fellow in school there! Didn’t you know that? Vamoose, I tell you!”
And the youth, looking doubtfully into Perry’s grinning countenance, with its battered nose and swollen lip, finally yielded his place. It didn’t do to make Perry Vose angry!