Some of them advised me to use sand to scrub myself with if I hoped to get the paint off." "Oh, that must be all a bluff.

It will come off easy enough if a little cocoa butter is used on it.

Here, somebody run out to a drug store and get some cocoa butter." After they had worked about fifteen minutes they looked at each other in dismay, for they had scarcely been able to start the paint, and it become plain that cocoa butter, soap and water would not take it off.
"Didn't I tell you ?" murmured Harry, sorrowfully.

"I'm done for! I'll never be able to get it off! I'll have to go out West and live with the Sioux! If I do I'll take along the scalps of a few sophomores!" They continued to work on him for nearly an hour, but were unable to get off more than a certain portion of the paint.

Harry was still grotesquely decorated when the boys arrived at the conclusion that further scrubbing with the materials at hand was useless.
Then Frank went out and rang up a druggist who had gone to bed, for it was after midnight.