At last he broke loose.
When he could control his voice Mr.Morton demanded: "What genius of the first class invented the 'oath of the dub' ?" "It wasn't a senior, sir," Thomp confessed.
"What junior, then ?" "Not a junior, either." "_Who_, then ?" insisted the submaster.
"Tell him, Sam." "That oath, Mr.Morton, required and received the concerted brainpower of-----" "Dick & Co.!" shouted the football squad in chorus.
A good-natured riot followed.
"Dick & Co.

will soon get the notion that they're the whole High School," growled Fred Ripley to Purcell.
"They are a big feature of the school," laughed Purcell.

"You're about the only one, Fred, who hasn't discovered it.

Rub your eyes, man, and take another look." "Bah!" muttered Ripley, turning away.

Just then the gong clanged the end of recess.
"Now, that 'the oath of the dub' has been given out," suggested Dick Prescott to his chums, after school, "we ought to find Len Spencer and give it to him.