The visitors seemed puzzled by his manner and presently addressed themselves almost entirely to Tom, who, anxious to atone for his room-mate's churlishness, was nervously affable and unnaturally enthusiastic.
"We don't see," explained Saunders, "why we shouldn't be allowed to have a banquet after we quit training.

We deserve it.

We've done as much, in a way, as the 'varsity fellows to win from Claflin.

We've been the goats all the season and it seems to me we ought to get something out of it.
What we want to do is to go to Josh and get him to give us permission to have a blow-out in the village Thursday night." "Or here," supplemented Freer, "if he won't let us go to the village.
What do you fellows think ?" "I think it's a good scheme," answered Tom.

"And we might get one over on the 'varsity, too.