You may be sure that Ted has posted the fellows from his school on a lot of things that they can yell at us.

Oh, we'll get guyed from the start to the finish of the game." "If they go too far," hinted Dave, "we can thrash some of the funny ones afterwards." "I shan't feel like thrashing anyone for having a little fun with us," remarked Reade.
"Thrashing wouldn't do any good, anyway," Dick continued.

"Besides which, we might just happen, incidentally, to be the fellows that got the worst thrashing if we started anything like that going.
I don't object to good-natured ridicule.

But the South Grammar fellows may have some things to yell at us that will rattle our play.

That's what I want to stop." "How can you stop it ?" queried Greg.
"That's what kept me home a little later than I intended to stay there," Dick replied.