BUYING FUEL FOR A BONFIRE?
"Well, what are we going to do with our magnificent war canoe ?" asked Greg Holmes dolefully.

"Does the bonfire idea go ?" "It doesn't," Dick retorted.

"Although we don't know anything about such a job, and though it is supposed to need a sure enough expert to do it, we're at least going to try the thing out and see if we can't make this canoe float, and carry us safely, at that!" "We'd better decide how to get it away from here, anyway," proposed Tom Reade.

"We haven't any lease of this lot." Over near the road a group of men and boys were laughing heartily.
It was at the lawyer's son that their mirth was directed.

As for Dick & Co., the Gridley crowd felt only sympathy.