Dick noted Purcell's name on a piece of paper, with a dollar and eighty cents charged against it.
All the other partners did the same with other students.

With such a series of pickets out around the school none of the student body got through without buying pennies, except Fred Ripley and Clara Deane.

They were not asked to buy.
Meanwhile, up in the great assembly room a scene was going on that was worth looking at.
Abner Cantwell had seated himself at his desk.

Before him lay a printed copy of the roll of the student body.

It was the new principal's intention to check off each name as a boy or girl paid for the music.