Kid, flattered, nodded nonchalantly. “Pretty near, I guess. It wouldn’t be hard.”
“How would you do it?” asked Nan eagerly.
“Oh—” Kid smiled carelessly—“I know a way. I dare say I could make more than ten if I really tried; maybe fifteen or twenty!”
“Maybe you’d make twenty cents!” Lanny said sarcastically. “You’re a silly little goat!”
“Is that so?” Kid smiled in a superior manner and looked dreamily out the window. “Just because you can’t make money you think nobody else can. Bet you I can make ten dollars in a fortnight easy.”
“You said a week!” exclaimed Small. “And it was fifteen or twenty you were going to make!”
“I said if I wanted to. I don’t want to.”
Small jeered contemptuously. “Maybe I could—if I wanted to; but I don’t want to!”
“I suppose we could all earn a little money if we tried,” observed Bert thoughtfully. “It would be rather fun to try, wouldn’t it? To see which could earn the most in a week or a month? Then we could put it together and buy something and give it to somebody.”
“I’ll tell you what we might do,” said Lanny. “We might save enough or earn enough to buy a trophy of some sort for the baseball clubs.”