"Dick, you old rascal! That was a mean trick you played upon me when you hurled that water down on me last night! But say, didn't it sound just like a three dollar pane of glass going to pieces ?" "It certainly did," laughed Prescott.

"And by the way, Tom, did the water, when it struck, make you think at all about what you've read of Niagara Falls ?" "Hang you!" grumbled Tom, shaking a fist.

"Why did you pour the wet stuff on me like that ?" "Because I was fooled myself," Dick promptly rejoined.

"I thought some rascal was plotting mischief to the store.

I wanted to mark that rascal with a suit of wet clothes, then run down in the street and collar him with his wet clothes on as a marker.