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The boys walked into town, so the girls were nicely settled in the car when Tom Cameron and his chums reached the siding. Belle Tingley's two brothers were not too old to be companions for Tom, Bob, and Isadore Phelps. And they were all as eager for fun and prank-playing as they could be. Mrs. Tingley had already retired and most of the girls were in their dressing gowns when the boys arrived.
"YES." Mine was the negative, Captain Reud's the affirmative, spoken simultaneously. At this crisis his lordship had made a very proper and theatrical start. Captain Reud grasped the glass with both hands; and the severe, bright eye of Dr Thompson fell upon the prank-playing captain. The effect was instantaneous: he slunk away from his intended mischief; completely subdued.
The thought of the way the absent father and mother had met every confession of his own that he could remember in a life of prank-playing softened the words which came next to his lips. "Well, it's pretty bad," he said, in a deep voice of regret. "I don't wonder it breaks you up. Such a little thing to do so much mischief and so easy to have avoided it all.
Though such a driver for work sometimes twenty hours a day seemed too short and they often worked all of twenty-four, there was not unfrequently a jolly, prank-playing relaxation among the employees in the laboratory. If some fellow fell asleep and began snoring the others would get a record of it and play it later for the culprit or they would fix up a 'squawkophone' to outdo his racket.