Gardner frowned and glanced inquiringly at the others. Ben came to his support.
“You fellows think you’re awfully smart, I suppose,” he said, “but you’re making fools of yourselves. Either you go out and get that slide ready or you keep off it altogether. It’s either work or no tobogganing for you chaps.”
“I’d like to know when we’d get a show at it, anyway,” said Lanny. “You fellows would be using it all the time. It would be just like the rinks. A lot of fun we juniors get there!”
“You’re entitled to use the rinks whenever we aren’t practising,” said Ben.
“What of that? You always are practising!”
“Then you can use the slide,” said Steve Lovell. “Come on, Lanny, don’t be silly.”
“No, sir, we aren’t going to fix that slide,” responded Lanny, emphatically. “We aren’t going to do any more errands for anyone, or any more shacking.”
“You mean you won’t fix that slide?” demanded Ben.
“That’s what I mean!”