Rather a queer decision you might think, until you knew the reason for it.
There was a room in the headquarters of the Boys’ Athletic Club available for gatherings of various sorts. It could be hired for dances and parties by the members or friends of the latter, and often the boys and girls would give little affairs there.
So it did not surprise the chums of Bob Dexter to receive, in the next few days, invitations to a little affair of this sort at the club. On the bottom of some invitations was a line:
“Please bring peanuts.”
“What’s the idea, Bob?” asked Ned, reading this command. “Aren’t you going to feed us?”
“Oh, yes, but the peanuts are for the monkey.”
“What monkey?”
“The organ grinder’s.”
“Is he coming to the party—I mean the dago?”
“Yes, and he’s going to bring his organ and monkey.”